Online user testing can provide useful insights into different stages of a project, and *bonus points* it’s quite cheap and easy! Most of the places I’ve worked (i.e. government) have had minimal budget and time set aside for conducting user testing. So, I had to find alternative ways to test and support (or refute) my information architecture and design decisions.
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Usability
Card sorting is one my favourite techniques for designing the navigation structure of websites and one that I’ve used on several projects. My methods are fairly simple but may be useful for anyone wishing to use card sorting to enhance their information architecture design work.
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As a bit of a web accessibility nut (I believe it’s really important), there’s a couple of things that I don’t like to do, but do anyway. One is making sure external links DON’T open in a new tab/window.
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