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The role of an Information Architect in the development of website involves the design of organization, labeling, navigation, and searching systems to help people find and manage information more successfully and also structure of content related to the website this allows user to understand and find what they looking for in easy way.
Keep Calm and do sorting |
UnSorted order |
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Sorted order |
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Questions and answers |
| a. Did you put The Hague under T or H? I put The Hague under T, firstly because it is place, and secondly because it’s proper name is “The Hague” b. Did you put El Paso under E or P? El under E. El is still a word, so it is under E c. Which came first in your list, Newark or New York? New York comes first d. Does St. Louis come before or after Saint Nicholas? I put ST,Lous first, because St. is the abbreviation of Saint e. How did you handle numbers, punctuation, and special characters? Used the Ascii Table http://www.asciitable.com/ f. Assuming the italicised terms are book titles, what might be a more useful way to organize this list? -Put them into categories for example "cities", "Movies" & "Books". And put them in alphabetically order using categories g. If the cities represent places you’ve visited and the book titles are ones - you’ve read, how could chronology be used to order the list in a more meaningful way? Group the books with books and also places so they would still be in alphabetical order, but in chronological order within the same category h. Look at how some of the other students have organised this information and comment on their blogs |
This post is about the navigation and labeling system of a particular website. I've chosen the search engine website called google.com
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| Label | Destination's Heading Label | Destination's Title Label |
| Header Menu | ||
You+ | google+ | Google+ |
Search | ||
Maps | Google Maps | |
News | Google News | |
Play | Google Play | Google Play |
Gmail | Gmail | Gmail |
Drive | Drive | Google Drive |
Calendar | Calendar | Google Calendar |
Youtube | youtube | youtube |
1.What labels you did not like and why, and suggests improvement.)?
Google's style and presentation looks nice and simple. The design of the page is fairly simple which is one the most important thing when it comes to requirements is a website. Google have easy navigation, it relies on Home page
2.Whether there were any inconsistencies in the labelling system between the pages (in terms of style, presentation, syntax, granularity, comprehensiveness and audience)
Google keeps its home page very simple and consistence. This prevents the user from distraction and makes the users to complete their task successfully in easy and simple way. However Google’ navigation on youtube.com makes different from other Google’s pages. For instance YouTube does not have top navigation bar and also it have different Heading Label from3. Examine at least two other similar or competing web sites. How similar are the labelling systems? Is any one site clearly the winner (and if so, why)
bing.com
Bing also uses a simple layout which is similar to Google. Bing implemented changing background automatically on its home page as part of getting more users attractive to it; however Google still have more users who have found Google more attractive.
3.B. Examine at least two other similar or competing web sites. How similar are the labelling systems? Is any one site clearly the winner (and if so, why).
Ask.com
Ask.com has different concept to Google and Bing. Ask is a question answering-focused web search engine. Ask has nice and simple interface to use, however the heading does not clearly shows property.
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