About KEXP KEXP is a Seattle-based nonprofit arts organization serving music lovers through in-person, broadcast and online programming. The Factor team included long-time KEXP listeners, thrilled to have an opportunity to contribute to this cherished organization. KEXP’s Challenge There’s a Patti Smith interview recording on tape in a box in a basement, a track list …
Challenge: Adobe had no shortage of “learn, help, and support” content for their creative software tools available online, but they knew that their fastest-growing segment–novice users–struggled to find answers to seemingly simple questions such as “how do I crop this photo”? Their challenge was simply, “How can we make self-help easier?” Approach: Factor carried out …
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Challenge: Find the cheese knife. Though the post-cart funnel was well optimized, the company’s site traffic analysis told a story that customers were having difficulty finding products on the website. In other words: due to a gap in attribution, customer’s couldn’t find, say, a cheese knife on Crateandbarrel.com even though they could at retail. And …
Delivering your Enterprise Information Layer Factor co-founders, Bram Wessel and Gary Carlson, presented a one-day virtual workshop on June 8 as part of Rosenfeld Media’s Enterprise Media 2023 conference. Information Architecture at Scale: Delivering your Enterprise Information Layer is designed to arm IA practitioners —from Senior Managers to the C-Suite—with better tools in order to …
WHEN: May 31, 2023 TIME: 9:00 am – 10:30 am (Pacific Time) Unlocking the Power of Your CMSWhy cultivating your Information Layer leads to better customer experiences and creates enhanced perceived product value. Hosted by CIDM, Factor’s Bram Wessel and Bob Kasenchak provided insight into what it means to manage and govern an enterprise content …
Challenge: Senior executives from our client’s marketing division—who were tasked with managing a multi-billion dollar marketing budget—wanted to know how marketing campaigns were performing relative to business goals across web, paid media, search engine marketing, and social media channels. But they were unable to make use of the information in their tangled web of marketing …
*This post is based on a talk given by Bob Kasenchak at the 2023 Information Architecture Conference. It was a detailed 20-minute presentation designed for IA practitioners. Our goal with this post, however, is to distill it down to its foundational thesis and invite a discussion about the important differentiation between Subject and Topic Taxonomies. …
Veteran Strategic Growth Entrepreneur, Gwen Hall, Joins Factor to Lead Award-Winning Enterprise Information Architecture Consultancy As the company celebrates its 10-year anniversary, Factor, the award-winning Information Architecture (IA) and taxonomy consultancy, announced the appointment of veteran consulting executive, Gwen Hall, as its first-ever CEO. Ms. Hall joins Factor after 20+ years with global consulting firm …
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Challenge:Funko needed to reconcile its e-commerce site with its catalog site, and in the process create a comprehensive digital commerce and content authority/resource for the Funko culture & community. Approach: In addition to a comprehensive assessment of Funko’s existing metadata, technical capabilities, user experience, content, and taxonomies, Factor carried out several small user research studies …
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In the second half of our “10 Questions (Plus One to Grow On) for 10 Years” interview with our founders, Gary Carlson and Bram Wessel, we tackle early lessons, mentorship, and legacy.
