Semantic structure of information within a website, desktop application etc.
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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 ...
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Name that thing: What should I call a 'person' in a case management system?
Think of a system that manages details about people--a case management system tracking hospital patients, or a CRM tracking phone calls by customers, or an insurance provider's system that tracks care ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Optimum number of choices for menus/navigation
Anyone know any usability or cognitive psychology research done on the optimum number of choices for menus/navigation?
I need some evidence to argue a case against a top level category menu of ...
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methods for evaluating a complex information architecture
I have been asked to evaluate a clients proposed IA based. The IA is only in excel and we have no wireframes or mockups to test.
The most obvious method would be a card sort but due to the sheer ...
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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
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How do you map the flow of a mobile application? Can you provide examples?
I'm currently working on the IA/UX for a mobile application and as I'm mapping it out it doesn't seem like a traditional site map makes sense nor does a flowchart. Can anyone point me to a good set of ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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Should every page in a site have a totally unique H1?
I agree that every page in a site should have a unique TITLE, and that every page should have one and only one H1 element, but should the text of each H1 be completely unique too?
Instinctively one ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
