A site IA visualized in aiSee
One of the most overlooked facets of many major sites is the actual organizational hierarchy. Too many designers and programmers just segment things into a few quick sections without doing any deep thinking on the issue, which can lead to major issues later.
Recently, the Washington Post published this article on the challenges that the Obama team is encountering in bringing its pledges of open government into whitehouse.gov.
The gist of the article suggested that the team is struggling to work out a solution to making the text of proposed government action (particularly legislation up for signature) available and commentable. This got me thinking about how I might try to meet the challenge.
Peter Morville has established this great flickr set of screenshots of the user interfaces from actual sites, broken down by purpose & category.
Because they’re all from major sites, they do a great job illustrating both the prevailing UI paradigms, as well as the different spins on each approach.
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