Information Architecture
Above all things, your website delivers information to its audiences and your users. How effectively it delivers that information will determine whether users take the actions you want them to, fulfilling their goals.
Akendi is expert in designing information architectures (IA) for corporate web portals, intranets, enterprise portals, ecommerce sites, and social networking sites to ensure that the information is designed in a meaningful and efficient way. The IA deliverable is usually a site map that shows the content of your website in effective & efficient collections. We use this information to design the interaction design of the web portal and customer portal.
Web Portals, Enterprise Portals & Intranets
Based on a proven UX design process and indepth user research, we will start with researching users and create an effective Information Architecture for your web portal, enterprise portal or intranet. We will follow this by understanding your business goals, requirements, and vision for the web portal or intranet.
Next, we will conduct task related user research such as ethnographic research, personas and usage scenarios to uncover your web portal, intranet users’ goals and behaviours.
Based on this user research, we will then:
- Inform the IA through card sorting
- Develop labelling and nomenclature for content structure, page navigation, contextual links, etc.
- Develop a final structure or site map that provides the content hierarchy and web portal, intranet structure.
- the next step is interaction design, visual design and specification for coding.
Let's Talk!
Reach us at contact@akendi.com or 01223 853907 for questions and more information about how we help optimize your user experience design, customer experiences, digital product design, or wayfinding design.
