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    • Milestone 1 - Research Planning
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    • Milestone 1 - UX Mapping, Empathy Map, Task Analysis, User flows
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      • 🔰Task Analysis and User Flows
    • Milestone 2 - Information Architecture and Mid-Wireframes
      • 🏢Information Architecture
      • 💻Sitemap
      • 🏞️Mobile Navigation Patterns
      • 🌠Mobile Design Patterns
      • ✏️Wireframes
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      • 🧪Usability Testing
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What is information architecture?

Imagine this: An ad catches your eye, and you want to know more about the product and its price. You visit the company’s website but can’t find the information you need. After several clicks, you give up and close the tab, deciding to try again later.

As a product owner or designer, such a disorganized website is bad for business. High-intent visitors leave because they can't find what they want. This is where information architecture becomes crucial.

Information architecture organizes content to make it easily understandable and accessible. It provides a clear layout for blog posts, websites, apps, and structures, helping users find what they need. A well-designed IA helps create a seamless and intuitive user experience. It ensures that users can easily navigate your website or app, understand where they are, and find the information they need. This not only enhances user satisfaction but also contributes to the overall success of your digital product.

Key components of Information Architecture:

  1. Users: Who they are and what they need.

  2. Context: Where, why, and how they interact with the content.

  3. Content: What they engage with.

Understanding users, their context and the content can help create effective information architecture. Neglecting any aspect makes this difficult.

Purpose of Information Architecture

  • Improve usability: Ensures that users can find what they are looking for quickly and easily.

  • Enhance user experience: Provides a logical and intuitive structure for information, reducing user frustration.

  • Support business goals: Aligns the organization of content with business objectives, such as increasing user engagement or boosting conversion rates.

  • Facilitate content management: Helps in managing and updating content more efficiently.

Information architecture vs. sitemaps

Information architecture and sitemaps are different. A sitemap is a part of information architecture, showing the structure and connections of website pages.

Information architecture involves organizing information, arranging content, navigation, and user pathways for a seamless experience. It also includes content labeling and user interaction.

Examples of Information Architectures:

  • User flows - A user flow diagram shows how users navigate through screens or pages to accomplish a goal. Test and revise your flows and interaction design until your target users find them usable and useful.

  • Wireframes—Wireframes outline how UI and UX elements may appear on a user interface. Designers use wireframes to present interface design with less detail, allowing them to gather feedback on architecture and design choices before investing time in development.

Further Reading:


Sitemaps—A sitemap or navigation flowchart shows how pages or screens relate. They capture a digital product’s organization and navigation systems and reflect user needs and behavior. .

Taxonomy - Good information architecture classifies content into clear, standardized categories, subcategories, and tags. A thoughtful helps users find what they need.

Website footer - The provides useful navigation links and contact information. It makes it easier to access important content and helps boost search engine rankings with crawlable links to key pages.

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