{"id":4571,"date":"2022-04-21T23:55:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T06:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2022-04-21T23:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T06:55:30","slug":"information-architecture%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/information-architecture%ef%bf%bc","title":{"rendered":"Information architecture\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be honest, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve experienced website or app with good information architecture. Even though I see some well organized website with good IA, I always curious about overlap category as a user. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, this is one of my least favorite website I&#8217;ve ever experienced, it&#8217;s called &#8216;Work day&#8221;. I believe we can still called it &#8220;IA&#8221;. When you go to work day portal website, you will see this page. I was struggled a lot (honestly still now&#8230;) where is saved schedule. Ridiculously, when you click &#8216;View My Academic Plan&#8221; you can see &#8216;saved schedule&#8217;. How people can expect this function under :Register for Course&#8221;. When I see this page at the very first time I thought &#8216;saved schedule&#8217; will be under &#8220;View My Academic Plan&#8221;, because it is also part of my plan that I&#8217;ve created. (There is too many problem in workday I believe, but those are not quite relevant with IA, so I will talk about it later) Even search engine doesn&#8217;t work for saved schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-10.39.59-PM-642x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4575\" width=\"321\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-10.39.59-PM-642x1024.png 642w, https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-10.39.59-PM-188x300.png 188w, https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-10.39.59-PM-768x1225.png 768w, https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-10.39.59-PM-963x1536.png 963w, https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-10.39.59-PM-720x1149.png 720w, https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-10.39.59-PM-580x925.png 580w, https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-10.39.59-PM-320x511.png 320w, https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-21-at-10.39.59-PM.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe in this case, there will be more effective solution, but for general IA problem, I have one suggestion (solution) which is make universal search engine. If there is universal search engine, people can easily find out what they wants to see! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve experienced website or app with good information architecture. Even though I see some well organized website with good IA, I always curious about overlap category as a user. For example, this is one of my least favorite website I&#8217;ve ever experienced, it&#8217;s called &#8216;Work day&#8221;. 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