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Card sorting has informed a new information architecture for Learn courses — Website and Communications Blog

Results of the card sorting study

How we used card sorting to help us devise a consistent information architecture for Learn VLE courses at the University of Edinburgh.

775 students participated in the study — and no two students submitted the same card sort. This highlights the great challenge faced by the Learn Foundations project in attempting to create a more standardised template that meets the wide variety of needs across the University.

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. The first project of the digital communications team is a relaunch of the website for prospective students. This project began about a year ago, long before the digital communications team was formed. Lean sessions In early 2013, members of […]

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Human-centred approaches — Information architecture — Web

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. At my work, I have begun a secondment to Admissions. I will still be working on web projects. But my focus for the next 18 months will be on webpages for the Admissions and Corporate Communications departments. From my […]

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. Last year we were asked to create a section specifically aimed at at international students (current and prospective). This represented a reversal of the previous approach, which was to house information for international students in the appropriate sections of […]

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Adapted from a post originally published on the University of St Andrews Digital Communications team blog. We are currently working on a project that will provide a subtle but significant improvement in the navigation of the internal University of St Andrews websites (for current staff, students and postgraduates). What we have just now Currently, the […]

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Information architecture — Media — Technology — User experience

Surveying search across British online newspapers — Martin Belam — currybetdotnet

Currybet has a series of posts reviewing the search features of newspapers’ websites. This post summarises the results. He rates The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail most highly. I would agree with the latter two, although the last time I tried to search TimesOnline it was a complete nightmare.

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There is an interesting post at canspice.org about tagging (not to be confused with the tagging that you get with memes). Tagging already has a couple of well-known problems. One of the major ones is the confusion over whether you should use singular or plural. Flickr cleverly bypassed the other problem — words such as […]