Interactive Center for Learning and Information Resources (CIRIA) at UDLAP
Information Architecture, Interaction and Visual Design
The Library at Univesity of the Americas Puebla (UDLAP) has evolved to a Center for Learning and Research Resources, offering more than book's loan, such as multimedia and collaborative spaces, digital services, information culture within academics, plus other information services. They called it CIRIA.
As result, the information on CIRIA's website had been growing without order. Hence, this project consisted in a redesign of the information architecture and a more structured layout for the website.
Content and Navigation Analysis
Mental Model
Wireframes
Mexican Institutions Network for Interlibrarian Cooperation: Grupo Amigos
Layout, Information and Visual Design
Grupo Amigos is an association of libraries and information centers from high prestige institutions, including the library of the USA's ambassy in Mexico.
They had elaborated a guide about copyright and reproduction of informational material. The objetctive was to provide it to all memebers in the association. In order to get a visual impact, the design applied the copyright sign as part of "the author's skin" and vivid colors. Afterwards, this idea was applied to the printed and web versions of the guide, and to publicity posters as well.
FAQs
Guideline about Photocopy Reproduction
Guideline about Reproduction and Citation of Text Material
Mexican Association of Libraries and Institutions with Antique Collections (AMBIFA)
Information Architecture, Visual Design, and CMS Adaptation
This academic association is conformed from most of the libraries and institutions with important collections of antique documents.
AMBIFA had requested a website to show its members' list, bylaws, notices, among others. A basic information architecture was provided, which induced to an ordered layout with the information clusters well delimited.
Information about Old Book's Structure
A Front Matter