From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
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Content-based navigation
From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
Content-based navigation
We used the card sort and reverse sort to determine how content on the site should be categorized. That categorization will now help us work out how to display content on pages at each level of the site. What order to list items in within the menu, and how to provide indexing and pagination. What attributes people are likely to want to filter by. Think of your information architecture categories, as a map to use when you create pages at each level of your site. Most sites will have Detail pages, Category pages and the Home page, along with some special purpose pages, we'll discuss in a minute. I talk about how content should flow between these page types in my course on UX fundamental. It's worth your while checking out that course for a deeper understanding, but let's show you now how your information architecture categories relate to your content based navigation. First, what do I mean by content based navigation? Well, there's navigation at every level of your site. From Detail…
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