Questions tagged [information-architecture]
Semantic structure of information within a website, desktop application etc.
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Home page content for a data aggregator website?
We're creating a data aggregator site for different activities one can do in our city. We're not sure of what to include and what not to on our front page.
Right now we have a big search function on ...
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What is the difference between Categories, Keywords, Labels and Tags?
Is there a standard way of using Categories, Keywords and Tags in the context of blogs, websites and web applications? I am not sure if it is a case of these being equivalent of synonyms in some cases,...
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What is the difference between Keywords, Tags and Controlled Vocab
I am designing a website that every article in it is related somehow with other articles ... I attend to do the relation by tagging the articles .. but some of the team suggested to do the relation ...
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Does duplicate content/links make content more findable?
We're having a bit of a disagreement of where certain content belongs on our company's website.
We have an Events page, where upcoming events are listed. However, this page was traditionally for ...
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Best way to inform users about file updates for items that are updated weekly?
We have a central repository (static website) that catalogs various icons and graphic templates our customers need to create their products. The user can go to the site and pick and download what they ...
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How could a webpage containing multiple tables be displayed effectively?
I am designing a user management tool where users will be made up of several groups.
Each group has its own table, but the table headings need to be sticky.
Example of a table with a sticky header
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Examples of products that have 2 areas / sets of login details
Take the scenario of a Point of Sale system, like Square. There is a 'hub' account that is logged in all day from the tablet, that all employees use to make transactions.
Every employee then also ...
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Using QR codes to record results of card sorting exercise
I have seen that OptimalSort gives an option to add barcodes to cards. However, this requires paying for OptimalSort and purchasing a barcode scanner. There are many free apps for reading QR codes.
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How to present boring facts that aren't really suitable for an infographic in an interesting way?
For an internal company wiki I want to write down/present some basic information regarding web development/design/UI & UX. For example have I collected some studies and opinions on how links ...
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Labels for cards in card sorting session
I'm working on a redesign of an ecommerce. Right now I'm thinking about IA.
I thought it could be a good idea to run a Card sorting session to discover what are the best labels to use and how to ...
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Sidebars - How useful are they?
We're considering putting information in sidebars and are wondering how useful they are or do users simply ignore them?
The project in question is for a heavy content news site.
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Best way to setup search for large amounts of PDFs etc
My first post here and hoping to get some useful insight and feedback. I'm working on a redesign project (UX & IA) for a local gov't client with a large amount of PDF documents. One of the project ...
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What makes a form field mandatory?
In a Web form I have a question to which an answer needs to exist, so that a result can be shown to the user. It's about the users family status (single, family).
Because there is a majority of users ...
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How to handle multilanguage when most of the contents will be available in one language only?
We are designing a large institutional website with lots of content. The site will be in Spanish, but the client needs some of the content to be available in English as well. Most of the content, ...
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Help with defect issue system
I have a brief where I have to build a system that helps engineers identify defects on a building site.
The engineer specifies where the defect is on a floor plan, what the issue is and invites ...
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Good alternatives for replacing multiple nested modal dialogs?
Having a mature and good-selling Windows desktop application, we are focusing on improving the user experience for the next release.
One thing that I try is to get rid of multiple nested modal dialog ...
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Surveillance System Builder Utility
I'm trying to redesign a utility that allows the user to estimate what kind of DVR they need based on the type/amount of camera(s) they need. It filters out Video Recorders models based on the ...
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Best UX approach to redesign the information architecture of a website?
I'm going to get started on a new project mainly focused on information architecture. The IA of the site I'll work on is extremely messy, complicated and not logical at all. We need to completely ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of hiding sub-levels of navigation ref. DIY.com?
I'm specifically referring to DIY.com here and I have not seen this type of navigation before (have you?)
My question(s) is(are) this: what are the reasons why www.DIY.com have hidden some of their ...
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Quantifying discoverability on where or how information is found, presented
How do you objectively quantify a discoverability problem if the designer insists it is your fault that you can't find something?
I am an user of this network of sites, which has a subsite for every ...
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Are there are any studies about displaying user opinions?
I'm working on big e-commerce site (consumer electronics) and we decided to put user opinions on every product page. I'm looking for some studies or some tests about information architecture in user ...
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How to best explain to users how their details will be used?
What would be the best approach to explain to users that their information will be used to:
1- help authenticate them if they do get locked out of their account.
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Menu Contextual Order
The application I'm working on maintains lists of timezones, countries, cities, & venues, and it allows the user to manage those lists (list/add/edit/remove) via a menu.
My initial approach was ...
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Hamburger menu on big screen - what do you lose?
The notorious "Hamburger Menu" () is now showing up more and more on large desktop and laptop screens. The actual navigation menu that summarizes the site structure requires clicking on it to show.
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Data tables - what's column should be first?
When creating a table with a lot of rows and a number of columns, what is the recommendation for which column should be first and most important?
An example scenario for the data table would be a ...
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Design UI panel
I have a dashboard screen with one of the panels as below;
So as you can see there are different fields and corresponding values. Now I need to design/update the same panel to consider the following ...
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What is an effective way to present wireframes and other IA deliverables to client? [closed]
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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Back Button and Menu Button in Top Navigation for iOS
We want to have users navigate our app using a side menu.
Once a user leaves main app pages, the menu button (in top left corner of nav) would change to a back button.
However, the content of our ...
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What is the appropriate line length of bullet points?
We can have information either in multiple paragraphs or a bullet point list. Visually, a bullet point is a paragraph with a black dot on the left.
We have two types of bullet point lists: Ordered ...
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Should my Home insurance transactional site have a page footer?
Im designing a home insurance transactional journey (what the user sees after they select 'get a quote' from the product page).
Should my x4 page journey (enter details, get quote, buy quote, view ...
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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 there data proving correlation between better URL structure and better UX?
I have found many sources stating that the URL structure is important as it helps users understand what the page is about, but so far no data about it. Do you know about any experiments run (A/B ...
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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 to optimally place time, temperature and icons in a grid?
I am coding a personal dashboard which includes, among others, weather forecast. I have a hard time optimizing the structure of the weather forecast. The constraint I have is that the time, ...
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Nested tabs (vertical within horizontal) alternative
I am working on a component is part of a larger wizard. It is made up of nested tabs (only 2 levels deep). Here is a quick wireframe of the it:
The system I am working on is a refresh of an existing ...
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Where is the intersection between Information Architecture with Software Architecture?
Where is the intersection between Information Architecture with Software Architecture?
When you start a new project, usually the software architecture starts its development and UX designer begins ...
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Is too many options to accomplish the same task good or bad for user interface?
For example, In order to design a event log, I provide users multiple ways to sort out the log entries they want to find out: search box, tagging system, category tabs.
The ultimate goal for users is ...
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User and Role management is a mess
At the local level, the system admin can add add/remove/modify users and user groups. At the same time, we have an internet based user management system. The device is registered to the cloud account, ...
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Displaying information on minimalistic long panels
I had a question about displaying information on long panels. For example, the first is an empty panel and the second is what I'm doing right now:
The main issue here is that putting text ...
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What is the research behind using darker contrast menus for global navigation?
I am working on a web application for paid clients to use to access different types of data. I am working on the information architecture and I believe that having a space for global navigation ...
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Designing a Geographic Form with Multiple Input Fields
I have a form that allows the user to input their geographic origin. The origin is broken down into 4 specific categories: City, State, Province, Country. The province input field would apply more ...
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In Android, is it good UX to have a tab navigation go 3 levels deep?
I'm working on an Android application with an information architecture consisted from about 3 levels deep.
Assume the following IA:
Home
Nav Option A
Sub Level A.1
Sub Level A.2
Sub Level A.3
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What strategy can be used to duplicate downloadable content on multiple pages without confusing users?
We have two particular cases of content duplication:
Product Manuals
Product Videos
For example a Product Manual needs to be downloadable directly from the Product's page. We also have an ...
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B2B / B2C, as one or two separate websites?
I'm in the middle of re-designing our company website and have found myself in a pinch when it comes dividing the site into B2C / B2B. (I've seen the other thread about this topic but didn't think it ...
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Content Recommendation Design Layouts
What design layout do studies (if any) show is more effective when reccommending content to users based on their past user data?: horizontal lists similar to what we see on Amazon's product pages or ...
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What's the difference between [website.com/directory] and [domain.website.com]?
And when is it better to structure your website's content one way or the other?
Note that I have seen there's already a related question, Domain Strategy From a UX Perspective, which has some great ...
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How to determine categorization for a large ecommerce catalogue
I have an existing online catalogue of more than 300 services to provide improvement to. One of the common complaints anecdotally is around the current navigation, that the labeling isn't clear and ...
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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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Truncated string usability
I am faced with a tricky situation in a data-driven application. I have really long names and a short field for them only available.
My idea was to use css-ellipsis to cut the length to appropriate ...
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how to deal with objects in a system that can be related as parents and siblings
I have a system with four objects in it. They are projects, documents, tasks, and people.
A project has children and they are tasks, documents and people which in turn are siblings.
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