04 Structure and navigation Flashcards
What is a navigation?
Navigation is a by-product of information architecture. Having IA that represents your customers mental model is a great place to start when designing navigation
What is horisontal navigation?
The primary navigation sits on top of the page and its persistant in that it always sits at the top of every page
- As you drill down secondary navigation appears. This is contextual and it changes depending on where you are on the website
- This can also be thought of as global and local navigation.
What is a global navigation?
Allows you to travel to any section of the webiste
What is local navigation?
Once you pick a section in the global navigation - the local navigation allows you to travel to any subsection on the website
What are the benefits of a horisontal global navigation and a local vertical navigation?
Very useful if you have a long list of subsections that will not fit horizontally.
What will you get with a hamburger navigation?
You only get a local navigation - but hamburger allows access to global navigation through sliding navigation drawer
What is information architecture?
Refers to how we organize, structure and label content on our software. IA is not the content but it determines where the content lives
How do you start to make information architecture?
- Follow the conventions
- Look at traffic data
- Look at search data
- Define hypothesis
- Card sort with people
- Kepp refining based on card sort
What is a user flow?
If information architecture refers to how your software is structured, then flow refers to how people move through that structure
What flows are most important to focus on?
The top 3-5 flows. And make sure that the app/software works for these top flows
What is important when you are designing screesn accoring to flow?
Understand where it sits in the structure
understand its sequence in the main focus. Be consious of different screen states.
What refers to how content is structured, organised and labeled in software?
Information architecture
What can be used to determine how to organise content on a website?
Card sorting
Peer benchmarking
Website traffic data
What does information architecture do?
Information architecture impacts user experience
Information architecture reflects how a website is structured
Information architecture reflects how content is organised
How users move through information architecture is known as what?
Flow
