Exercise #10

 The structural projection of an informational space that offers intuitive content access can be defined as the structure of a website. When creating a systematic approach to the process of generating effective navigation, the structure of a website is especially crucial.

What is a website structure, and why is it needed?

A website’s structure helps to form understandable, discoverable, and predictable patterns. A proper website structure helps the site’s visitors find information easily though consistency. Users feel satisfied when they find information quickly, and a solid and relatable structure is essential to the usability of the website. In fact, UX designers can solve broader issues in UI design and usability through good website structuring.

Good website structure is necessary for grouping and cataloging content. When considering potential architectures, designers can typically choose from either a top-down or bottom-up approach based on their users’ needs and business goals.

• Top-down approach – A top-down approach focuses first on general categories of the content. Designers can logically divide the content by gradually breaking it up into categories. This can help inform the taxonomy or hierarchical structure of the website.

• Bottom-up approach – The bottom-up approach is, as you can probably tell, the opposite of the top-down approach. Where the top-down approach focuses on cataloging content into categories, the bottom-up approach focuses first on creating a structure based on the content that is available for the website by grouping the elements into categories of the lowest level first and in turn grouping these categories into higher level ones.