Fixers of Big Messes
From umbrella topics like UX or Taxonomy to more specific terms like Enterprise Content Management or Pre-cart Findability, design comes in when someone has a big mess and they need help fixing it.
taxonomy
E-Commerce Lessons Learned
Gary Carlson and Bram Wessel recently spoke about lessons that Factor team members have learned through various e-Commerce engagements.
Essential Assessments for Designing Enterprise Taxonomy
Designing a taxonomy is the process of defining its structure. It details how different relationships will be used, formatting of the labels, and the attributes that will be associated with each term and relationship. The design process is also the right time to consider the governance and maintenance procedures for the taxonomy along with the technical implementation considerations.
Beyond the labels: The right taxonomy for your project
At the end of the day, taxonomies are a means to an end and are rarely valuable on their own. They’re the bridge in the conversation between a business and its customers, an information system and its users.
User Experience and Taxonomy Collaborations Promise Actionable Information Models
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2013 demonstrates how the User Experience discipline is helping taxonomists get better results for users. From design techniques to testing, these communities are learning, and growing, together.
Taxonomy Bootcamp: User Research for Better Information Modeling
In his Taxonomy Boot Camp talk, Bram Wessel focuses on how to expose the way diverse groups of users create mental models of an information space.
Taxonomy Boot Camp: Lifecycle Panel with Industry Leaders
In “Taxonomies: From Idea to Reality,” Gary Carlson will lead discussion with industry leaders Seth Maislin, Ralph Tamlyn, and Carol Hert that taps into their experience with successful taxonomy projects.