<commit_before>---
title: "Improving the Portlet Structure in SN7"
author: ildika
image: "/img/posts/steps.jpg"
tags: [ux, research, portlet structure, navigation, card sorting]
---

As the part of rebuilding the information architecture in SN7 we were highly motivated to redress the Portlet-structure to make its usage more handy

---

As the part of rebuilding the information architecture in SN7 we were highly motivated to redress the Portlet-structure to make its usage more handy.

Since the purpose of this study was to improve navigation amongst Portlets, we decided to use the Card Sorting method, that facilitates the development process by involving users. This way we can map users' factual needs, as the essential base of building IA successfully by understanding users, their backgrounds, their goals, in an early stadium of product development.

## Good IA to good navigation

Navigation inbetween Portlets built upon the structure of Portlet systematization. Structural elements of navigation, are Portlets as nodes. Users will find them in a portlet-picker, displayed by tree-view. That offers the visible structure to navigate trough to find a Portlet. Thus, the logical structure must be designed first, to enable easy navigation among Portlet-Categories. So, as the main points of determining the good architecture we took into consideration the followings:

-   asking users to test, who updating websites the most often
-   providing a system, that supports earlier versions of Sense/Net as well
-   determining easy-to-maintain taxonomy

## Card Sorting method<commit_msg>Removed duplicate text under teaser<commit_after>---
title: "Improving the Portlet Structure in SN7"
author: ildika
image: "/img/posts/steps.jpg"
tags: [ux, research, portlet structure, navigation, card sorting]
---

As the part of rebuilding the information architecture in SN7 we were highly motivated to redress the Portlet-structure to make its usage more handy

---

Since the purpose of this study was to improve navigation amongst Portlets, we decided to use the Card Sorting method, that facilitates the development process by involving users. This way we can map users' factual needs, as the essential base of building IA successfully by understanding users, their backgrounds, their goals, in an early stadium of product development.

## Good IA to good navigation

Navigation inbetween Portlets built upon the structure of Portlet systematization. Structural elements of navigation, are Portlets as nodes. Users will find them in a portlet-picker, displayed by tree-view. That offers the visible structure to navigate trough to find a Portlet. Thus, the logical structure must be designed first, to enable easy navigation among Portlet-Categories. So, as the main points of determining the good architecture we took into consideration the followings:

-   asking users to test, who updating websites the most often
-   providing a system, that supports earlier versions of Sense/Net as well
-   determining easy-to-maintain taxonomy

## Card Sorting method
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{'dir': 'git-commits-cleaned', 'id': '1561838', 'n_tokens_mistral': 716, 'n_tokens_neox': 688, 'n_words': 435}