Information Architect
Expedia, Inc.
Bellevue, WA, USA
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Expedia, Inc. is one of the world's leading travel services companies. With its portfolio of leading travel brands, Expedia, Inc. empowers business and leisure travelers with the tools and information they need to easily research, plan, book and experience travel.
About Expedia, Inc.:
Expedia, Inc. is one of the world's leading travel services companies. With its portfolio of leading travel brands, Expedia, Inc. empowers business and leisure travelers with the tools and information they need to easily research, plan, book and experience travel. The company also provides wholesale travel to offline retail travel agents. Expedia, Inc.'s main websites includes: Expedia.com®, Hotels.com™, Hotwire®, Expedia® Corporate Travel , Trip Advisor™, and Classic Custom Vacations®. Expedia, Inc. also operates international sites in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands and China through its investment in eLong™.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Information Architect will design and document site flow and architecture, content organization, navigation, and cross-linking strategies, as well as suggest page structure and/or prioritization of elements on a page based on experience observing users in testing situations and/or industry best practices.
- Based on established site business goals and audience needs and working collaboratively with content strategy, identify site content that is necessary to support both.
- Organize content logically to create exceptional site architecture usability and support business goals.
- Identify calls to action; devise architecture and cross-linking strategies to drive users along in their process and towards calls to action.
- Stay current on industry trends in information architecture, evaluate when and how it is appropriate to apply them to current and upcoming projects.
- Develop and maintain deliverables that document content organization, taxonomies, navigation systems, search systems, registration and purchasing processes, including, but not limited to: Site maps, Wireframes, Scenarios, Process Flows.
- Be familiar with and apply client business requirements and industry regulations to information architecture.
- Participate in the crafting of Usability tests and Customer Insight Research; prepare prototypes and attend test sessions.
- Apply goals of personas and findings from User Research and Usability Testing when designing information architecture.
- Must possess strong communication and presentation skills for both internal and client-facing presentations.
- Coordinate and collaborate with writers, designers, SEO experts and other SMEs to assess content, develop taxonomies, navigation schemas and page element prioritization.
- Familiarity with Usability Heuristics and how to apply them to Information Architectures.
- Critique site architectures on industry best practices and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Map out processes of complex interactive functionality including Web and Flash applications.
- Must possess familiarity with the possibilities and limitations of various technologies such as Flex, Ajax , Action Script, CMS, etc.
- Work with content management system templates.
- Familiar with card sorting, nomenclature testing and all modalities of user tests with the ability to apply learnings from them.
- Asses how client business goals translate into site goals.
- An understanding of templates and how they work to assist site consistency and usability as well as help with ongoing maintenance and production.
- Comprehend intricate database and systems integration needs and communicate those interactions via annotations.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum 2-5 years experience in e-commerce or content site design.
- Experience with the duties described.
- Strong understanding of the Information Architecture resources, research, best practices, experts etc. and the drive to remain current within this fast-evolving field.
- Knows Microsoft Visio, Office, Power Point, Excel, and Adobe Illustrator
- Experience leading the production of testing materials including prototypes (paper and clickable), and scripts as well as experience in translating results into design adjustments that address identified issues/needs.
- Familiarity with the differences in designing for Brand sites, CMS-driven sites, large scale sites, international considerations, accessibility considerations, meta data, search external and internal.
- Agency experience a plus.
- Knowledge of Axure or other dynamic prototyping software desired.
- Experience crafting personas and scenarios.
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Factors engineering, Information Architecture, Library Science, HCI, Experience Design, Graphic Design or related field.
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Received: 18-Mar-08
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