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URL Design for Information Architects
- 1. URL Design for Information Architects Deanna Marbeck Silver Oliver
- 2. What we are going to tell you Why you should care about URLs How to design beautiful URLs When to think about URL design What deliverables come out of the design process
- 3. What we are not going to tell you What are URLs
- 4. Do you design URLs?
- 5. Why do I care about URL design? First 10 minutes of my working day
- 12. www.hotmail.com
- 25. doctor_who_rss_url.php 17-Jun-2008 07:42
- 36. What does this all mean?
- 37. URLs are as important as the logos and navigation of a site http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/
- 39. What helps you design these URLs?
- 40. The guiding principles Persistent Readable Hackable
- 42. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- 43. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Persistent
- 44. Persistent Why? Other sites link to you Users bookmark you Search engines find you
- 49. Persistent Prince? The Artist Formerly Known As Prince? Symbol? The Purple One? Prince Rogers Nelson?
- 50. Persistent Prince? The Artist Formerly Known As Prince? The Purple One? Prince Rogers Nelson? http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e
- 51. “ Designing mostly means leaving information out” Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that
- 52. What NOT to put in URLs Author’s name Status Subject Filename extensions Software mechanisms Session ids
- 54. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Persistent
- 55. Human Readable Why? Don’t only appear in the address bar Easy to understand Easy to remember More meaningful Arguably some SEO benefit
- 59. Human Readable rubbishandrecycling? rubbish-and-recycling? rubbish_and_recycling? special characters
- 60. ~
- 61. Human Readable rubbishandrecycling? rubbish-and-recycling? rubbish_and_recycling? special characters length
- 62. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Persistent
- 63. Hackable Why? Represents the logical structure of your site Provides extra information – orientation within the site Lets people move to higher levels of your site Lets people guess the address for a similar resource
- 69. Hackable http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2008/08/04 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2008/08/10 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes
- 71. Hackable http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2008/08/04 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2008/08/10 http:// www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour
- 73. Hackable Consistent use of labels Similar resources should sit at the same level Provide a meaningful page for every level of your hierarchy
- 74. The guiding principles Persistent Readable Hackable
- 75. It’s a balancing act
- 76. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Persistent
- 77. The design process and deliverables
- 78. Why do I care?
- 80. aka My Boss
- 81. Traditional IA
- 85. “ What URL is that at?”
- 87. When?
- 88. At the beginning of the design process Understand user requirements Understand business requirements Understand your data – domain model
- 91. Design your URLs Make your schema Understand the relationships between your data Design your URLs from the bottom up One URL for every resource
- 94. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e/releases
- 99. Music URLs /music/artists/:artist/releases/:releasetype /music/artists/:artist/releases /music/artists/:artist /music/artists /music /music/about /music/developers /music/contactus
- 100. More music URLs /music/labels /music/labels/:label /music/labels/:label/releases /music/labels/:label/releases/:type /music/labels/:label/artists /music/releases /music/releases/:release /music/releases/:release/tracks /music/releases/:release/events /music/releases/:release/contributors /music/releases/:release/links
- 101. Now you have a site structure
- 103. Deliverables
- 104. Communication Walls of URLs Lists of pages Wireframes Designs Prototypes
- 105. URLs on postits
- 106. Walls of URLs
- 107. URL syntax :artist {service} /music/artists/:artist /{service}/programmes
- 108. Involve your team
- 109. Spreadsheets
- 111. Sitemaps
- 112. Schematic
- 113. Designs
- 114. Prototype - http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists
- 117. Summary URLs are part of the user experience Information Architects should be involved in the design of URLs Create beautiful URLs and beautiful site structures