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Information Architecture

Plan a Website that's compelling and easy to use with Exclusive Concepts

The presentation and organization of your Website has a huge impact on the success of your online business. Information architecture (the design and navigation of a Website) is an often underutilized component of online strategy and planning. Whether your site has 10 pages or 10,000 pages, a clean and clear approach to information architecture will ensure that your customers are happy and that you meet your online business objectives.

Just as you wouldn't construct a building without establishing a strong foundation, a Website can't be built just on looks. It must also exhibit well designed navigation, usability and content structure.

Once on your Website, users expect to be able to accomplish their goals with minimal obstructions. Whether it's learning how your products and services solve a problem or comparison shopping between brands, the architecture of your Website must facilitate information retrieval in an easy and industry-standard way.

Exclusive Concepts will build your Website using a three-component approach to information architecture:

  • Content Organization—How information is categorized
  • Language and Labeling—What terminology is used to describe and label content.
  • Content Accessibility—How to move through your site using navigation and search mechanisms

Since each business is unique, information architecture can’t be a cookie cutter operation. To be effective, your site’s information architecture must be grounded in a strong understanding of the goals and mission of your business. It’s this context that forms the backbone of your Website.

Exclusive Concepts studies your business from mission statement to order processing. The team then develops schemas to structure your online content so users can find what they’re looking for as quickly as possible. Appropriate language and labels are used to bring your users that much closer to your content. Next, the content needs to be easily accessible with logical navigation and robust query mechanisms.

Every step of the way, Exclusive Concepts ensures that your online customers know what to do next to get to know your company and complete their order.

Plan your site with Exclusive Concepts, and make the Web work for you. Call today.

 

What is information architecture?

According to Information Architecture Institute, information architecture is:

  • The structural design of shared information environments.
  • The art and science of organizing and labeling Websites, Intranets, online communities and software to support usability and find-ability.
  • An emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.
 
 
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