Designing Information Architecture

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UX Research Methods for Information Architecture

While many broadly applicable UX research methods can be helpful in the design of information architectures for digital information spaces and products, UX researchers have devised a number of useful methods of both generative and evaluative UX research for the specific purpose of improving the quality of information architectures. During the Discovery phase of a project, before defining requirements, conduct generative user research to better understand how actual or potential target users would organize and label particular classes of information and gain other insights that inform the design of an information space or product’s information architecture. Throughout your Design process, you ...