Cookiefail

By Joe Holdcroft, Yesterday at 04:09pm

I was digging around in my sandbox area recently and came across some work Jamie and I did on cookietrails (or breadcrumbs as they are also referred to) a few months ago.

We decided we were kinda unhappy with the whole "cookietrail" thing… because, well, they're not really cookietrails, nor are they breadcrumbs. They are more like signposts… a map of "you are here", rather than "how did I get here" - which is what a cookietrail is really for.

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Supersonic Card Sort

By Jamie Freeman, 26th July 2010 10:05am

One of the first steps with any reasonably sized web project is a simple Information Architecture (IA) exercise, known as a 'card sort'.

A what now? A card sort. It's jargon, and I hate that, so I thought it might be interesting to see one in practice to help explain what we actually do.

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