information architecture · user experience

‘But is expanded choice good or bad?’, from The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

I use this study as an example with *so* many projects these days that I thought it might be useful to share the original source with you here. Schwartz is sharing the findings from a series of studies titled ‘When Choice is Demotivating’… One study was set in a gourmet food store in an upscale… Continue reading ‘But is expanded choice good or bad?’, from The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

information architecture · planet drupal

Drupal.org redesign – Cardsorting Module Categories

If you’ve been following along you’d be aware that one of the nuts we’re currently trying to crack is the modules section of the drupal.org website – how can we make modules more findable? In the interest of gathering more information to help make a good decision, i’ve put together another little cardsorting exercise. If… Continue reading Drupal.org redesign – Cardsorting Module Categories

information architecture · planet drupal

Drupal.org – more thoughts on the Information Architecture (Part 1 – Projects, Downloads etc.)

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on my initial thoughts on the information architecture – it was certainly food for thought and, as a result of that and some more work on our part, we’ve moved on a little in our thinking – I’d like to share some thoughts and some questions with you now,… Continue reading Drupal.org – more thoughts on the Information Architecture (Part 1 – Projects, Downloads etc.)

information architecture · planet drupal

Drupal.org – what we learned from the card sort

If you’ve been following this project you’ll know that we’ve been doing an online card sort recently to help inform the information architecture for drupal.org. To date we have had more than 200 people participate in this card sort exercise, which is a tremendous effort and a bucketload of data! Thank you all! In particular… Continue reading Drupal.org – what we learned from the card sort