New answers tagged information-architecture
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From my experience this is primarily used as an SEO play as you can link to your whole site with keyword-rich anchor text.
It is also a great place to put "orphan" pages that dont get linked to elsewhere on the site like privacy policy, copyright, etc.
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The increasing prevalence of such footers implies that there must be some research supporting their use, but I haven't yet encountered any. Have you?
I think you're placing too much emphasis on the role of research as a driver of design principles. I would say that these things emerge from designer intuition, and proliferate if they don't cause serious ...
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You mean like whitehouse.gov?
Personally, I love the feel of a website when it has menus and links on top and bottom. When I'm on my phone, I'd hate to read a page, then have to scroll back to the top to find the navigation.
Also, typically, the bottom contains links which are more descriptive, along with extra links such as sitemap, toa, and copyright ...
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Do not show the matching records
Since you want to see the differences between the source and the destination all you have to display are the rows with differences. For those without differences just verbalize it as a feedback of the comparison (for instance : 56 rows matched, 4 mismatched).
Make the differences obvious
Then pair the rows that mismatch ...
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Why don't you try the usual responsive solution? When displaying the images on mobile, switch from a side-by-side to a stacked view. The same images are there which the web users see and they can click whichever one they want.
Regarding the issue of clicking image to visit page: The visual cue problem is similar on both platforms. You can add a hyperlink or ...
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I'm assuming the "content" in your illustration is text, and that will go some ways to make the association between the mobile buttons and their desktop counterpart. Also, using the same font, color, etc. will reinforce that association. If the images on the desktop version could be abstracted into icons, even better.
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I would recommend against it since old users would associate the website links with those images and changing them into buttons might potentially confuse them. An approach you can go for is to use responsive images which will scale in size and hence allow the user to view them on a mobile device.
I also dont know the use those images serve but if they are ...
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In a paper titled "Mobile Web Browsing: Usability Study," Sujan Shrestha found that if users are familiar with the desktop site, changing the navigation on mobile can confuse them and slow them down.
That said, if your entire display is essentially just those two buttons, I doubt anyone's likely to be confused about which one they need to click as long as ...
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Menus are a navigation element and so what make the most sense is whatever makes navigation easier for your users.
Your first example is a good menu, as although you have only one item under 'Otters', it wouldn't make sense renaming 'Otters' to 'Sarah' as it would then look like 'Sarah' were a type of animal. Additionally, if you get a second otter to keep ...
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I would wonder if theres any established best practice for this situation. This would depend on different factors.
Scalability:
If your navigation menu is category based and there is significant possibility that the number of menus under it may increase, its definitely good to keep it as category. Example, If 'Accommodation' may contain 'Guest House', ...
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A approach I would take is to provide the alternate filtering option on the page of the main level only.For example,taking your last example of filtering by hotels the design would be something like that
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
The advantage of this method is that you can provide the superset of results ...
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Menus don't have to be logic they have to be meaning and useful.
If there is one "child" then you do not need a "parent" like a unique radio button does not make sense.
Having sub-navigation on-click is common but very replaceable
Most web sites do not have sub-navigation menus. A book of one chapter does not need a summary: you just read it, a house with ...
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There's some confusion in assuming that Tufte is for complexity. He's for information fidelity, not necessarily density. He's a huge proponent of 'less is more' as well, in that he is very much known for rallying against 'chart junk' -- aka all the design details that often get in the way of the actual data (zebra striping, fat table borders, unnecessary ...
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I strongly recommend reading this excellent article on best practices for community specific design. From a design perspective and to ensure you allow for easy collaboration and contribution, To quote the article :
Browsing
Community sites, like any other website, need to facilitate browsing using design tactics > that immediately tell the
user ...
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The smaller the amount of topics/threads you expect the smaller the initial amount of boards/categories. For example, you can start with "Technical Problems" and later divide into "Technical Problems Product A" and "Technical Problems Product B".
To find a good solution I would
a: google for "information architecture"
b: look at/search for comparable ...
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As I understand it: company division, company office, and department have hierarchy between them in the architecture of the intranet but in real life they do not. Furthermore your stakeholders don't want to shake their mental model of the organisation.
To get started, you do NOT want to discuss someone mental model: that is not your role, it might even be ...
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SEO, HTML5, Schema.org, and the less important H1 tag.
Typically the way I've been redesigning sites recently is to use an <H2> tag as a subhead (even if it's above the <h1> in copy visually) but position it in CSS so in code view, the <h1> tag appears first. This way search engines can give priority to the distinct <h1> in their ...
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I worked on the Information architecture for a similar app so here are some pointers which can help
Define the primary objective of the app. I know its feature rich but it still will have a primary objective such as enabling hotel bookings or finding hotels
Define the secondary objectives of the app
Check how the app handles these primary and secondary ...
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It looks like a reverse engineering of Information Architecture of the application. Break down the application to its basic elements and then piece them together based on functionality.
You can start with a rudimentary hierarchical breakdown of the features.
List down whatever you action items (links/buttons/etc.) see on the home page
Select one link and ...
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It would be better to make it consistent for all the titles. You are basically making it a battle for the user to 'guess' what clicking a particular title will do; will it open a new page OR will it open a box?
You can create a long page with all the titles are sections and have a navigation at the top where clicking on a title will scroll you to its ...
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