Hello peers, I'm working on a high-volume video site that covers an enormous number of topics that is growing by 2-5 topics/subtopics per month. Our search is great btu we need to improve wayfinding and browseability. We had an overblown hierarchical structure before that was difficult to manage on the editorial side. Our biggest problems to solve now:
1) Hierarchical structure is problematic because each video can easily fit in multiple categories. For instance, SF Mayor Newsom talking about city greening efforts fits in: government, urban planning, environment, politics, society, and a number of subtopics. The way or site works, videos are autmaticall published to all their topic area. But we don't want the same videos to show up at the same time in 6+ areas of the site. 2) Subnavigation under main topics is unscalable as new subtopics get added. We want to avoid an unscalable IA, and are exploring ideas around using tags (defined by editorial rather than user-generated; users' tag will be applied for personal/group organization only) for dominant navigation. We feel we need to keep the big buckets for top-level nav, but think there is an opportunity worth checking out. Does anyone have examples of sites that use tags this way? It's fun challenge but I'm trying to decide whether it is worth our very limited UX budget to experiment, or whether we should suck it up and stick with a more familiar 2- or 3-tiered hierarchical structure, using tags as contextual nav on the side? Thanks for playing. I'll happily post a summarized list of examples later. Cheers, ~N~ Nicole Maron twitter: nicolemaron blog: http://technopatra.com/blog ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
