Information Architecture & Taxonomy
Every website benefits from careful planning before implementation, just as every building needs blueprints before you start construction. Determining what sections should be present, how users will move around the site, and how users will consume information on each page are important considerations that can help you plan a website to align with your business goals.
Business Challenges
- Navigation keywords not user friendly or misleading
- Ineffective navigation methods
- Lacking useful relational content due to lack of effective categorization or social tagging or other meta data
UVision Delivers
- Site mapping
- Navigation design
- Wireframes
- Search results design
- Taxonomy, vocabulary and categorization design
- Site visits / field interviews
- One-on-one user interviews in research facilities
- Contextual inquiry during user observations
- Affinity diagrams
- Card sorting
- Content inventory audit
- Detailed task analysis
- Use scenarios
- Taskflow diagrams
- Information Architecture (IA) maps
- Annotated wireframes
- Interaction maps
- Content matrices
Resulting Value
- Well structured online website
- Increased usability and navigation flow
- Maximized online real estate
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Find out more about Information Architecture & Taxonomy offerings.Success Stories
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In 2004, NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries Program (NMSP) had volunteer programs from the public willing to devote their free time to helping causes related to the National Marine Sanctuaries and other related initiatives. Managing the mass amount of volunteers had previously been done separately by each sanctuary. -
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Russ Kaulback engaged UVision to develop promotion tools for BNV's promo releases in addition to implementing content management solutions and recommending internet business strategies to stay at the top of the independent music industry. -
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NMSF partnered with UVision to build and deploy a comprehensive charitable donation and donation campaign management web application for the NMSF web site. This allows the Foundation to more easily raise funds for the nation's marine sanctuaries as well as other Foundation-sponsored donation campaigns.