Showing posts with label IA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IA. Show all posts

Wednesday 27 January 2021

Tree Testing and Heuristic Reviews - Ux for dummies

I was speaking to two Ux experts in a meeting and they referred to Tree Testing when discussing Information Architecture and the users working there way around a new SaaS product.  "Tree Testing" is not a term I had heard before so they showed me this site and it fantastic.

https://www.optimalworkshop.com/learn/101s/tree-testing/

I'm more familiar with Heuristic Reviews - that I find useful for improving UI/UX using an iterative approach that suits Agile nicely.

Thursday 27 January 2011

Information Architecture for SharePoint

Overview: I was speaking to a client recently about there SharePoint Intranet and I mentioned they should have a Information Architecture (IA).  This should preferably be done by an Information architect but at a minimum the organisation can get the IA from project stakeholders.  Below I list the 2 most commonly found IA representations approaches: Wireframes & Hierarchy/structure diagrams.

What is IA?
Wikipedia define IA as "Information architecture is the categorization of information into a coherent structure, preferably one that most people can understand quickly, if not inherently. It's usually hierarchical, but can have other structures".
For web based projects, the best 2 methods for defining IA are a hierarchy and a wireframe other useful tools are defining the taxonomy against the hierarchy IA diagram.  I have seen various techniques to achieve this but keeping it simple as listed below and having a separate annotated version defining the term set or formal business taxonomy at each level is useful.

Hierarchy IA Diagram
WireFrame
Read More:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1657659

Update 23 April 2011 - I have seen people looking for a starting point for an Intranet Menu structure, this is a generic option I propose for Intranets.  Please feel free to suggest your own structure.