Taxonomy
Once we know our user's mental models, the next step is to organize that information using a component of IA called "taxonomy." Taxonomy is the method used to group, label, prioritize, and tag information to allow for greater findability, readability, and overall usability of the information being presented.
In the following image of a sitemap for an online college library, we can see an example of how taxonomy can be used:
Sitemaps
A sitemap is literally a visual map of information detailing the various paths we want our customers/users to take. The main objective of a sitemap is to ...
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