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How to design a user centric taxonomy for Ek?
In this blog series, one of EK’s taxonomy experts, Ben White, provides 4 practical steps to designing and validating a user-centric taxonomy. When most individuals hear the term “taxonomy design,” the initial reaction may be to disregard the practice as too technical or complex.
What are the steps to designing a taxonomy?
Yet in reality, all that a taxonomy design entails is collecting the information that is already available, then organizing it to help your end users find and use the correct information efficiently and effectively.
Which is the end product of a taxonomy?
The end product—a taxonomy— is a standardized list of terms or controlled vocabulary, which can be applied to product categorization, web site structure, and faceted navigation. Regardless of the way you choose to use a taxonomy, it is important to understand the tried and true principles that allow us to design for success.
How to choose the best taxonomy for your website?
It’s important to have multiple keywords for each section of the taxonomy. However, they should never be chosen on a whim. It’s essential that the keywords you choose are directly relevant to the content on your page. Several keywords that describe similar concepts should also be used in each section.
Do you need keywords to create a taxonomy?
Keywords alone won’t help identify the relationships between different site areas and features, while a full taxonomy exercise aims to do just that. Designers might need to do some digging to really understand what users are thinking of and looking for before creating a taxonomy.
Who are the people who use taxonomies in UX?
A good taxonomy is typically a collaboration between UX designers, content strategists, information architects, marketing, and development folks. Marketers might know quite a bit more about site keywords and SEO rankings, and a content strategist can help define and categorize terms and might have special insight into how users interpret content.