User Experience Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for user experience researchers and experts. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
My portal has the following categories structure:
=> Name of Magazine
=> Year
=> Month
=> Name of section (Study, Law, Opinion, etc.)
Trouble is the 'Name of section' is identical for many magazines so often the typists confuses the appropriate magazine, year and month of publication and selects the wrong one.
Is there an alternative method for categorizing such a system?
I have a limited knowledge about the situation so my answer may be not to the point.
There is nothing wrong with the same names of sections. There is apparently something wrong with the way that users select the category.
I think you should consider presenting the categories in the appropriate context. One magazine can have the same years, months and sections as the other as long as you display the related information. Consider using breadcrumbs or displaying the information in a way that leaves no doubt about the greater categories above.
