From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
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Starting with an abstract structure
From the course: UX Foundations: Information Architecture
Starting with an abstract structure
Your ultimate aim is to have a menu structure and also the other navigation elements for your site. You might also want to know how to categorize content on the site. But we aren't quite there yet. First, we have to create out abstract information architecture. This provides us with a description of how users think about and classify the stuff that's on our site, without any of the constraints imposed by the site's design. It's important to have this overview description. Because if we jump straight into designing menus we may miss the big picture. Some parts of your information architecture won't be displayed in menus, and bits which are could be shown in different places. For instance, you might make a distinction between site tools and site content. Displaying each in it's own menu, or you might decide that news and events should perform the basis of the site's homepage and thus potentially not need a main menu item. Similarly, support areas could either be displayed as a menu item…
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