Blog 2: Talking about Information Architect, Sorting List and Navigation Labels

Role of an Information Architect

Information Architect (IA) plays a very crucial role in planning where the information and services will be located in the website so as to make the user as comfortable and the process of navigating and accessing the information as simple as it can be for the user. Information Architect also explores the needs and requirements of the customers for the information deliverables. Information architect is a person or a group of persons who works under the paradigm of information architecture which in turn is a part of information systems. IA also has the authority to decide over the preferences of the author and the business requirements. The key roles of IA also include structuring, organizing and labeling.

Sorting List

#!%&: Creating Comic Books

$35 a Day Through Europe

.38 Special

The 1-2-3 of Magic

1001 Arabian Nights

Albany, New York

H20: The Beauty of Water

The Hague, Netherlands

T he Lord of the Rings

New York, New York

Newark, New Jersey

El Paso, Texas

Plzen, Czech Republic

Saint Nicholas, Belgium

St. Louis, Missouri

XVllme Siecle

Did you put the The Hague under T or H?

Under T.

   

Did you put El Paso under E or P?

Under P.

Which came first in your list , Newark or New York?

New York.

Does St. Louis came before or after Saint Nicholas?

After.

How did you handle numbers, punctuation and special characters? 

I put special characters first, then punctuation then numbers.

Assuming the italicized terms are book title, what might be more useful way to organize this list?

According to genre of the books.

If the cities represent the places you've visited and the book titles are the one you've read. how could chronology be used to order the list in more meaningful way?

They could be demarcated according to books i have read and the cities i have visited or may be into two columns of books and cities.

Navigation Labels

For this blog the site which i have selected is www.mzhiphop.com

Top Page Navigation

Label	Destination’s Heading Label	Destination’s <title> label
mzhiphop.com	mzhiphop.com	mzhiphop
HOME	HOME	Homepage
SONGS	LIVE SONGS	LATEST SONGS | Popular | MZTOP 100
VIDEOS	VIDEOS	LATEST VIDEOS | MZTOP 100
TOP 100	TOP 100	TOP 100 songs | Week |Month |All Time |Videos |News
SPECIAL	SPECIAL	SPECIAL PACKS |Popular |MZTOP 100
OLD BUT GOLD	OLD BUT GOLD	OLD BUT GOLD |All Time | 2010 |2009 |2008 |2007 – 1995 |MZTOP 100
REMIXIES	REMIXIES	LATEST REMIXIES | Popular | MZTOP 100
NEWS	NEWS	LATEST NEWS | Popular | MZTOP 100
CONTACT	CONTACT	CONTACT US

Bottom Page Navigation

Label	Destination’s Heading Label	Destination’s <title> label
mzhiphop.com	mzhiphop.com	mzhiphop
Home	Home	Homepage
Songs	Live Songs	LATEST SONGS | Popular | MZTOP 100
Videos	Videos	LATEST VIDEOS | MZTOP 100
News	News	LATEST NEWS | Popular | MZTOP 100
Top 100	Top 100	TOP 100 songs | Week |Month |All Time |Videos |News
All Updates	All Updates	LATEST UPDATES | Popular | MZTOP 100
Contact	Contact	CONTACT US
Terms	Terms	TERMS OF SERVICE
Privacy	Privacy	PRIVACY STATEMENT
DMCA	DMCA	DMCA | MZHIPHOP

• All labels are linked to their appropriate destination but i did not liked the bottom labels as they take too much space and many of them are repetitive. Other than that everything seems fine.

• There is one another site similar to mzhiphop.com and that is emp3world.com and mp3fresh.net but later is more complex to navigate and nor user friendly for the user. One of this site (emp3world.com) not even have labels and too awful interface and the other mentioned website (mp3fresh.net)  is too complex and not interactive and very simple and bad designed site.

• While, mzhiphop.com has every news, songs, videos updates and even old hits also. A perfect place for music lovers.

• Following is the snapshots of the emp3world.com