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Project 1 - Info architecture and organization

How might you re-arrange the large groups of links in the the following sites?

Start by clicking every link to read what's behind each one. Before you looked at the content behind the links...were any of the link texts unhelpful, downright misleading, or depending on "insider lingo"? Re-label any of the links in your re-design that you think could be re-written in a more clear manner.

How could you "group" the links available on this page? Use lists, and simple text formatting to present your idea of how the page could be most helpfully organized. Do you think that all the topics should be available right on this page, or should some of the groups of links be placed on other pages?

Each of these sites has one very "link-heavy" list.

Choose only one of these 3 sites for your project, and read through the links.

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Using headlines and lists, break the links up into groups and think of a label for each group. Choose new text for some (or all) of the links if you think there would be better choices.

Show the link text, but the links do not need to work, but I do want to see the link labels, to decide if these are faithful labels for the pages from that site. You should find a place in your navigational scheme for each topic. It may be that some of the topics fit under more than one of your headings. Perhaps it's OK to put more than one link to the same content...what do you think?

I don't want to prejudice people's choice of how to organize the links by showing a complete previously handed-in project, but here's an example one where I've cut all the categories and bulleted lists except their last one.

Use:

For comparison, these sites are already fairly well-organized examples of the same info-design challenge: