IA patterns

09 September 2018

• Hierarchy - broad to narrow tree relationship
• Database - similar things - get to know the things in different ways. Pieces are the same and there’s lots of different ways to get to them - metadata / attributes.
• Hypertext - pieces related by relationships in content
• Linear - not on the web much. book, walking
• Catalogue = database sitting on top of hierarchy
• Hub and spoke - search results