The primary audience for this book is any student having to play the role of information architect. These may be design students, business students, or computer science students. This book provides a basic understanding of the practice and principles of Information Architecture. When you build a building, you make a blueprint. When you build a toaster, you create a diagram of its workings. Yet web sites whose complexity far exceeds a toaster's are thrown up hastily with barely a thought to how a human is supposed to use them. This book will concentrate on teaching the key skills needed to make the complex clear and the complicated simple. It shows students how to apply these principles, filling a crucial need in the Web industry where diverse types of people fill this role. The book is written in a light and breezy style with copious illustrations, flowcharts and other graphics.