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Information Architecture for Normal People
- 1. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE FOR NORMAL PEOPLE GROWING BEYOND POSTS, PAGES, CATEGORIES AND TAGS
- 2. HI! I’M MARY FRAN I’m UX designer at Orbit Media. I just happen to be a super nerd with a love of WordPress, gluten-free cupcakes, blogging and tap dance.
- 5. add_action( ‘init’, ‘create_ post_type’ ); function create_post_type() { register_post_type( ‘wordcamp_chicago’, array( ‘labels’ => array( ‘name’ => __( ‘WordCamps’ ), ‘singular_name’ => __( ‘WordCamp’ ) ), ‘public’ => true, ‘has_archive’ => true, ) ); } WHAT THIS TALK IS NOT
- 7. help users understand: where they are what they’ve found what’s around what to expect W H A T
- 8. informs the content strategy informing user interface design collaboration with all team members H O W
- 9. important skillz, man! UX and other disciplines content strategy technical writing library science interaction design W H Y
- 10. and the obvious, better data! W H Y
- 11. VOCABULARY
- 12. A T A X O N O M Y I S a scheme of classification.
- 13. Y O U U S E D T H E M W H E N you took high school biology
- 14. Y O U U S E T H E M W H E N you binge on Netflix
- 15. Y O U U S E T H E M W H E N you shop for shoes online
- 16. Y O U U S E T H E M W H E N you go to the library
- 17. A P O S T - T Y P E I S a piece of content with unique attributes
- 19. P O S T a piece of content with unique meta data and attributes that WordPress organizes into a time-based feed
- 20. P A G E content that doesn’t fit in a feed and is less dependent on time
- 21. C A T E G O R Y a hierarchical taxonomy for posts in WordPress
- 22. CATEGORIES ARE BUCKETS! CONTENT GOES IN ONE AT A TIME!
- 23. T A G a non-hierarchical taxonomy for posts in WordPress
- 24. POST TYPE post format V E R S U S
- 26. H O W T O D E F I N E T H E M identify data points what’s different from other post- types? structured data vs. WYSIWYG fields what are your outliers?
- 27. W P F E A T U R E S flexible meta boxes create via code or plugin unique and/or shared taxonomies
- 28. W P F E A T U R E S to ∞ and
- 30. HIERARCHICAL NON-HIERARCHICAL V E R S U S
- 31. W H A T ’ S I N A T A X O N O M Y what post types are they for? hierarchical or no? does it add value or noise? does it have meta data?
- 32. MY PROCESS
- 33. S P R E A D S H E E T O F D O O M unfortunately, you can’t just “sonic” it.
- 35. A W E B O F L O V E LOCATIONS SERVICES BLOG CATEGORIES TAGS REGIONS FEATURES
- 37. S O M E T O O L S F O R Y O U Jetpack Custom Post Type UI Generate WP