1. Are You Sure You Need A Sitemap?


    If you’ve come across sites that are easy to navigate, chances are you have experienced good information architecture. IA is a crucial step in the site design process to create clear site navigation. Although we typically document IA in the form of sitemaps, in my ten years as an IA practitioner, this diagram has been a common pain point for client communication. It takes a leap of imagination to see how lines and boxes translate into a smooth user experience. In one of our recent projects we decided to ask ourselves, what happens if we skip it?

  2. Making User Flows Unambiguous

    A few months ago, my team and I were in the IA phase of a project and were getting ramped up to create some user flows. User flows have always been a valuable part of eHouse’s preliminary process and we write them into contracts as client deliverables. In the past, our user flows have consisted of the traditional shapes (squares, diamonds, squares with wavy edges, etc.) that are strategically connected together to represent the user’s experience through a specific process. We spend a lot of time researching best practices and working out the challenges to develop the best possible solutions for these experiences.