Understanding Context: Environment Language and Information Architecture

About this book

To make sense of the world were always trying to place things in context whether our environment is physical cultural or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital always-networked products apps and places context is more complicated than everstarting with "where" and "who" we are. This practical insightful book provides a powerful toolset to help information architects UX professionals and web and app designers understand and solve the many challenges of contextual ambiguity in the products and services they create. Youll discover not only how to design for a given context but also how design participates in making context. Learn how people perceive context when touching and navigating digital environments See how labels relationships and rules work as building blocks for context Find out how to make better sense of cross-channel multi-device products or services Discover how language creates infrastructure in organizations software and the Internet of Things Learn models for figuring out the contextual angles of any user experience