Understanding User Behavior and Needs
- Describe your plan for conducting user interviews focused solely on information findability and content organization.
- How would you employ analytics to understand user navigation paths and potential bottlenecks?
- Create user personas specifically aimed at understanding their needs from an information architecture standpoint.
Content Organization and Hierarchy
- Propose a restructured sitemap for your current project that aligns with user expectations.
- How can content chunking improve the readability and findability of your site or application?
- What would be your strategy for creating an adaptable content hierarchy that can grow with the product?
Navigation and Menu Structures
- Sketch wireframes that show improvements to the main navigation menus of a website or application.
- How can secondary navigation elements, like breadcrumbs, be optimized for better user flow?
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of mega menus in website navigation and propose a suitable alternative.
Search Functionality
- Describe your process for optimizing search algorithms to produce the most relevant results.
- How would you design an autosuggest feature that is intuitive and improves the search experience?
- Should search filters be used and, if so, what are the key filters to include?
Usability Testing
- Plan a usability testing session solely focused on information architecture.
- Create a heuristic evaluation guide for testing the existing information architecture.
- How would you go about A/B testing different menu structures?