Semantic structure of information within a website, desktop application etc.
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Domain strategy from a UX perspective?
Having a domain strategy seem to be the latest thing. The discussion about it circles mostly around legal, seo or branding issues but if you want to look at it from a usability perspective - how ...
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1answer
577 views
Task-based vs topic-based navigation on travel destination-site
I've got a concept of a destination-site (about Paris) covering topics like: Hotels, Restaurants, activities, tripplans, and all other usual suspects. This topic-based navigation is the de facto ...
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2answers
166 views
How do you decide which links should be placed in the primary menu?
How do you decide which links should be placed in the primary menu? Should you only link to the pages and areas that get the most traffic? How should you think?
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navigation menu for not an ordinary site content
Most of my past projects are rather simple in terms of navigation. A simple dropdown menu (Superfish, for instace) works with most of them.
Now I have a project that requires content to be separated ...
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12answers
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Do website visitors return to the homepage once they're inside the site?
I have been (unsuccessfully) looking for some research that supports / rejects (or even discusses) the hypothesis that:
Once a user has entered a website a significant percentage of them do not ...
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1answer
950 views
Best tool/program/method for taking a site inventory? [closed]
As an IA, I frequently take a detailed content inventory of a site, capturing basic things such as page titles, URL, and META keywords (to name a few).
What programs have people found success with?
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Approach for archiving a site for an annual event
I maintain a site for an annual event: http://abetterworldbydesign.com . Every year after the event, we struggle with the question of how to change the site to reflect an archive of the past year's ...
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4answers
347 views
Multiple sites or one site?
My wife and I run a creatives business as my part time and her full time job. We do photography, illustration, print design, Flash development, and sometimes web development. We have a simple little ...
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3answers
366 views
Quantitative methods for analysing vast Intranet IA
I have been asked to analyse and better group pages under a section of a large government website. The number of pages runs into the thousands.
The problems I have is that metadata rules have not ...
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1answer
102 views
Ideas on displaying and editing 'Hours of Operation' for a service provider
OK--you've got a translator in Bolivia, and you need to know when she can provide her transportation services. And you need to store this in a system, for others to see and possibly edit.
My ...
2
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1answer
478 views
Where to find design patterns for product management web apps?
I'm creating a IA-prototype for a product-management web app.
I don't know the field (product-management) that well and I'm looking for samples.
The requirements for this Web-app are:
web-based
...
2
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4answers
228 views
scale or rating design
I was wondering what would be the best way to say someone is one thing or another.
So, i want to create a form for Jungian Personality, but i want to make it fast and simple. So i was thinking of ...
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Using color in wireframes…is this a “no no”?
Recently, an internal debate was started at work regarding the use of color in wireframes. A junior designer had finished a nice set of wireframes and was told at the end to turn everything into ...
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3answers
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Which of these two ways of browsing are better for the user?
I am creating a simple web page application and in my question are involved 2 pages and there are two scenarios.
Scenario No 1
On page1.php I use php with MySQL to get a product's data to the page. ...
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4answers
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UI best practices for FAQ-style presentation
The web application I'm working on has a few pages where a list of questions and their answers will be displayed. All pages have the questions grouped into overall headings (which the users will be ...
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2answers
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How would you define 'levels of complexity'?
In the 'blog' about the ribbon design, Jensen Harris talks about complexity. I've always thought the levels of complexity were the number of 'clicks' needed to arrive at a certain submenu or screen ...
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2answers
240 views
How to validate large-scale IA without skewing data? Crowd-sourced techniques?
I am pitching for a job that requires validation of the information architecture of a very large health and social care website of around 6500 pages.
Here is my approach:
Analyse existing ...
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2answers
1k views
Underscores vs. hyphens in URLs
I'm trying to come up with a page-naming convention so that each page in a web application I'm developing has the human-friendliest URL possible. The current URL structure of the web application is:
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4answers
398 views
What's the definition of Information Architecture?
According to Morville, Peter & Rosenfeld, Louis in their book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (2006) 3rd edition, its this:
The structural design of shared information ...
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2answers
201 views
Including unique content under multiple navigation trees
I have a navigation based on categories and certain pages appear under the same categories. That means they appear twice under two different menus. Does anyone see a particular problem with this, ...
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2answers
153 views
Anyone have experience with Customer Carewords
See: http://www.customercarewords.com/what-it-is.html
Summary:
You construct a list of around a 100 words/tasks and ask users to identify top five (or similar). You then analyses the results and ...
4
votes
1answer
209 views
Where do you place the homepage on a sitemap?
Simple question really: on your site maps, do you always place the homepage (if existant) as the top single level of a site map, or do you treat it as a sibling on the other main level pages?
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Designing for the fold
What is your advice for designing for 'the fold'? Is this still a concern? Is the concern that people won't scroll? Can't you use visual cues to help users understand that there's more content below ...
