Semantic structure of information within a website, desktop application etc.
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Alternative to 2 tab bars in iPhone app
I am working on an iPhone app. I am in the early stages of designing the structure.
I will be using word department as a node in the information architecture structure of an app.
I encountered a ...
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8 short tutorial videos: all embedded in one page vs separate pages with title link?
I'm putting together a catalogue page for eight 3-minute video tutorials explaining how to assemble electronic components (if relevant, here is an example video). The context is a robotics competition ...
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Which design for internal pages not represented in site navigation?
On a simple (static content only) website I want to add a page titled (translated) "Press articles". On this page all press (online or print) articles about the sites' organization are to be ...
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603 views
How to solve overly deep hierarchy navigation on mobile device?
I’m reading Jakobs Nielsens new mobile usability book.
There is an example of a mobile site that suffers from an overly deep hierarchy (5 levels in total)
In the example users need to navigate through ...
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Information architecture width and depth, looking for studies
I remember reading recently some studies (lot of them pretty old) that claimed that in general it is better to go with wide and shallow information architecture rather than narrow and deep. However ...
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What's “scan column” and why do we name it like this?
What's "scan column" and why do we name it like this?
Why not just call 'left column' or 'right column'?
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How does a CCTLD affect user behavior?
I'm in the process of consolidating several sites into one. Content that previously lived at http://example.co.uk/ will now live at http://example.com/uk/, content from http://example.fr/ will move to ...
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One site, 2 domains
I have a proposal for a site, where for technical reasons the project manager proposed to run the site on two domains.
It's a Moodle learning site, and we have a Moodle supplier hosting the actual ...
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Is paging within a scrolling banner necessary?
This is used quite extensively across the web, but I'm wondering whether it is actually necessary.
Alot of animated banners/carousels on websites use navigation or paging links so that you can jump ...
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Recommended URL structure for products and categories in MVC app?
For example, suppose I have a site with products and product categories. I'm trying to come up with a good intuitive url structure. I want to use name slugs throughout rather than database ids. In ...
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Is it bad to use information architecture to describe multiple topics with duplicate category names?
I'm rebuilding a site from scratch and would like to make better informed decisions about UX and IA.
Is it bad to use information architecture to describe multiple topics with duplicate catagory ...
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How to visually show Information Architecture of a website?
I am working on a school project to analyze the existing information architecture of a website and then redesign it (I have been referring to this slide).
I came up with a site map which shows the ...
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Presenting conditional form elements in a complex scenario
I am currently building an interface for creating user accounts within a system. This interface is to be used by system administrators.
I am currently unsure as to what's the best way to present the ...
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UX vs IA core competencies
What core competencies differentiate a User Experience Designer from an Information Architect?
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Task-based navigation with menu-items expanding to Mega Menus
First let me apologize for the length of this question, but I want to explain it pretty thoroughly.
Some background/rationale first: As part of the design of a new travel website I've gone with a ...
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Less frequent but relevant information more seldom or more frequent but less relevant information more often?
In a project I’m participating in we are in a crucial crossroad. We’re discussing whether it’s better to fill an intranet with information, even if it’s not directly targeted at this particular user, ...
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187 views
What is the formal name for an information block in a webpage?
The upper right of the following page has a block labelled "How to Format". What's the formal name for this element in GUI design?
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Designating Unique Templates within a Wireframe Set
Is there a "threshold" that makes a template a Unique template within the wireframe set? I have defined my "unique" templates as when the layout can apply for any of those pages with simple/tedious ...
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Why does the Google logo sometimes take you back to search and sometimes take you back to the product?
The title is a little lengthy -- I know -- but please bear with me on this one.
I observed today that some Google sub-sites (namely Google Images, Google Books, Google Shopping) redirect to Google's ...
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Does navigation menu have to mirror the actual page structure in my site?
Can I put items in a navigation menu list, that don't actually mirror the website pages structure ?
e.g. if the pages in the site follow this structure:
Homepage
|--Products
|--Product 1
...
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Whats the best way to represent private pages in an information architecture map?
I am creating an information architecture map for a site I am working on. 90% of the site is visible to all on the Internet, but the 10% is available for users, based on their role.
My question is ...
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Assessing a value of a page in Google Analytics (GA)
I am analysing an information architecture using GA and am trying to qualify the worth or value of a page. There are certain metrics I have at my disposal such as unique views, bounce rates, exit ...
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why we need multi-column page layout? Why we do need sidebars? [closed]
Some websites only have one column.
Some websites have multi-columns.
So why we need sidebar, or why we need multi-column page layout in web /print media ?
Is there any UX principles?
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For a site with multiple different user-types should the primary navigation reflect all available options for all users?
I think there is a serious navigation problem on the website I am working on. I have four kinds of users (people working in fashion, interested in fashion, people that buy fashion, and people that are ...
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can user-generated tags help organise a site's IA?
I am working on a project for an ecommerce website where there are multiple personas. Each persona will have a different mental model of the system so the IA is proving especially hard.
My original ...
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Displaying a large number of tables
We're designing a search feature which returns results from many different tables.
The user searches for something and the application returns all the tables answering the search query. The user ...
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Has there been an implementation of a tag hierarchy with graph edge relations?
When organizing information it is common to use either a hierarchy or tags. An element in a hierarchy is ordered within a predefined category and relates to other elements as above, below or at the ...
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Interfaces using Multiple Element Types: Tabs, Tables, Menus, and Accordions
I'm designing a website that is basically overloaded with information and I need to make a layout that will allow all the information to be taken in but with two restrictions:
I want a maximum of ...
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773 views
What is an effective way to present wireframes and other IA deliverables to client?
My agency currently includes wireframes in our project definition documents. Each key page is described along with its wireframe, basic interaction, input fields etc.
However, I'm not sure if this is ...
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How to organise navigation items with quasi parent-child relationships
I'm looking for an effective way to organise navigation items where some items are closely related to another in the same list.
This is how they're currently listed:
Home
Users
Teams
Products
Groups
...
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Wireframing StoryBoard as an entire UX design specification (deliverables)
From an IA/UX designer perspective, what do you think about HiFi wireframe storyboard for Web applications, instead of a classic deliverables approach?
I have read a very good documentation about ...
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How should I handle conditional content for product listings?
I have a client who wants to have conditional content in the product catalogue of their website for each market/user base. The client has a lot of "user bases" and markets, each with different needs, ...
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How do you improve the IA of an existing site without throwing away existing content?
I have a scenario that I'm trying to work through and would appreciate your thoughts...
Imagine you have a corporate intranet with about 50k pages and a really outdated information architecture. You ...
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1answer
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How to visualize a large Neural Net?
How to visualize a Neural Net with thousands of input nodes and tens of thousands of connections?
The image above does not have any connection values, but the visualization that I am creating does. ...
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Updating page information - Inline vs selecting edit
I am redesigning an app from scratch, and have a little dilemma on the UX behind updating page information/editing page information.
The information can range from profile settings to user pages to ...
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How can I differentiate Online products vs “Offline” products?
I'm helping re-design a website which has some products that can be purchased online and some which can only be purchased offline in physical stores.
Both the products you can buy and can't buy need ...
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Image thumbnail representation for paragraph text
in my app, a user would have a set of posts.
Some posts (like 50% of em) would have media attached, while some of them would not.
There are several instances where I would like to give thumbnails ...
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Alternative label for “Solutions” tab in main menu?
Analytics and heatmap testing show that users don't really click on the "Solutions" tab in our main menu. My guess is that this is because the "Solutions" label is overused and users are a bit blind ...
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Information Architecture for a Blog [closed]
I am about to re-design an existing blog for a company and I have a very good flexibility in terms of layout-design and IA.
There are many galleries to get some inspiration for the design part, but ...
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2answers
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How to deal with multilevel menus
I trying to design a horisontal menu that sometimes will go three levels down. The thing that drive me crazy is to know if I should show all the levels.
For example:
About us, Products, Contact
...
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organising destinations for travel company
I've been asked to produce an IA for a large travel company and specifically the groupings of destinations.
I have: by country THEN by state region THEN by capital city and major population center ...
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Adaptative Web Design + UX deliverables
does it make sense to create UX deliverables about wireframing information design, when nowadays we are evolving to adaptive web design, with more than 2 or 3 different layouts for different devices? ...
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Fewer main pages, fewer tabs is better?
I'm working on a local cinema's movies website, and I've been trying to reduce the number of pages in favour of showing more types of content on them. Currently, I have a Home page (with a carousel / ...
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Any value to gathering qualitative data from card sorts?
One of the best tools I've found for card sort experiments seems to be websort, mainly because you can just send out a link for participants to go through the exercise at their own convenience.
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Creating an Information Architecture for a e-commerce page [closed]
I wanted to showcase information architecture of a e-commerce web page (not a deep-linked site) to the internal team. So what are the step-wise procedures considered in building an IA?
Also can you ...
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top level menu takes you to a random sub level menu
I'm looking at a re-structure of an existing site and I have the following situation:
There is a top level menu for example: Home; About; News; Resources;
Within Resources there are various ...
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1answer
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Is it suitable to change the design of a service over time?
When designing a web service is it acceptable to change the layout over time?
For example when you first launch a service you may be introducing new concepts and relationships to the user which ...
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Displaying Hierarchical Information in a Mobile App
trying to come up with a good way of presenting a hierarchy of information on a mobile device. Specifically, I wrote this Khan Academy app for Windows Phone:
...
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2answers
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How would a perfect overview for 400 competitors look like?
I have to create an overview for a competition with about ±400 competitors. They are separate in the "best 100"-group and the others.
A random number of competitors shown as thumbnails with (if so) ...
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Separate Admin Website?
Is it best to have separate websites for the Data Entry Team and Customer Service Team?
Data Entry Team are responsible for inputting the data (adding records).
Customer Service Team are responsible ...
