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Information Architecture

When re-structuring a large website with many pages and sections, I use a sound methodology of:

Using these and with the help of user-testing, I aim to create new paths to information within the site, and help users find the information, or achieve the goals they want from the website.

Here's a short presentation on User Centered Design with examples of user experience and information architecture I've worked on.

Case Studies

screen shot of a grey-box interface design

NHS Plus:

Working from the established site architecture and user research across a broad set of social groups, I put forward a set of proposal documentation analysing the current website.

This also proposed a new 'goal-oriented' navigation and was delivered along with a set of 'grey-box' user-interface designs to illustrated how this new navigation might be put in place.

This site is on hiatus at time of writing.

NHS healthcheck:

An existing paper based self-assessment system needed replicating in digital form on an NHS intranet.

I designed both the user-interface and look and feel for this new system based on the existing designs. The site was developed based on my HTML wireframe prototypes.

link to brightonunderground.com website

Brightonunderground.com

I was the Web Editor for this government funded site for six months, given the brief of turning around a lack–lustre, confusing site into a

information source for the local music industry.

I re-designed the information architecture, and laid out the site in a more intuitive manner. I worked on the content by re-organising (and in many cases rewriting) the content, and commissioned many more articles. I ensured that new content was screen-readable and pithy.

In order to optimise the site's rankings, I re-worded a lot of the content and created a large network of links around the site. When live it appeared on the first page of most relevant brighton/music related google searches.