Gauging your IA success

Salvador Dalí once said, "Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it."

As defeating as this quote may sound, your objective as a UX practitioner is not to reach perfection, but to create design that is meaningful, understandable, useful, and engaging. To gauge your success in these areas, ask yourself these important questions:

  • Is the information presented coordinated in such a way that it is quickly and easily understandable?
  • It content presented and written at a level that your specific readers can understand?
  • How great is the effort for users to cooperate with your design? Will they want to willingly or begrudgingly? Have you tested this with real users to know for sure?
  • Is the right amount of information being presented? ...

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