From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
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Creating good information architecture
From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
Creating good information architecture
The whole purpose of creating a good information architecture is to help users navigate your site or product. So it makes sense to include your users in the design process. That means performing some user research tasks in order to find out how your users categorize things. Once you have this information, you can use it to find a creative solution. And then do some usability testing to make sure your solution fits your user's needs. During this course, we'll show you how to gather information from users, using a technique called card sorting. Then, how to interpret that information. And turn it into an information architecture. Next. You'll test this architecture with some more users to verify it with a reverse card sort. Before using it to create your site's navigation structure and layout. At that point it's time to go back to your user's again to use a Birdie Test your new site or application design. The information you get from your users will help you to do the design work to…
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