UX Foundations: Information Architecture
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Find how your users think about the world, and transition those lessons to your product's navigation, content classification, and layout.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- What is information architecture?
- Creating good information architecture
- Why do information architecture research?
- Card sorting to determine information architecture
- Finding the information to use in a card sort
- Deciding what goes on the cards
- Making the cards
- Recruiting participants
- Running the session
- Recording participants' answers
- Getting from cards to knowledge
- Eyeball analysis of your data
- Accessing remote users with online sorts
- Setting up a card sort using OptimalSort
- Running an online OptimalSort card sort
- Reviewing what participants see
- Checking your data
- Using the built-in analysis tools
- Starting with an abstract structure
- Creating abstract information architecture
- Knowing the problems you might face
- Understanding that card sorting isn't a precise technique
- Making sure your hierarchical structure is correct
- Creating and running a paper-based reverse sort
- Analyzing a paper-based reverse sort
- Interpreting the results
- Exploring computer-based reverse sorting
- Using Treejack for reverse sorting
- Running an online reverse sort with Treejack
- Reviewing what the participants see
- Analyzing a Treejack reverse sort
- Getting to navigation
- Standard page elements
- Content-based navigation
- Going from information architecture to site layout
- There's no substitute for usability testing
- Watch your server logs after you go live
- The right information architecture is crucial to your site
- Next steps
Taught by
Chris Nodder
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