Principle of Front Doors
The Principle of Front Doors is an information architecture guideline that acknowledges multiple entry points into a website or system.
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Information Architecture
The structural design of information environments, organizing and labeling content to support usability and findability.
Jakob’s Law
A principle stating that users spend most of their time on other websites and prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.
Illusion of Completeness
A cognitive bias where users believe they have explored all available content, even when more is present.
Top-Down IA
An approach to information architecture that begins with high-level structures and breaks them down into detailed components.
RWD
Responsive Web Design (RWD) is an approach to web design that makes web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes.
Card Sorting
A user research technique where participants organize information into categories to inform information architecture and design.
Layer Cake Pattern
A reading pattern where users scan a page in horizontal stripes, focusing on headings and subheadings.
Continuity
A Gestalt principle that describes the tendency of the human visual system to perceive lines or patterns that follow a smooth, continuous path rather than a disjointed or abrupt one.