Sitemaps are the blueprints of your website that provide information about pages, videos, and other files and the relationships between them. Search engines can read these sitemaps and know which pages are the most important, thus boosting your SEO. Understanding and effectively categorizing your information based on research will boost your next project.
Use OptimalSort online tool web architecture.
OptimalSort is an online tool that helps you create informed information architecture decisions by understanding how users want your content to be organized. OptimalSort will give you insightful information about how people group and label ideas. It takes the guesswork out of design decisions and makes for a better more intuitive product.
Read Card Sorting by Donna Spencer.
Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories gives us in depth knowledge about how people think about content and categories. Gain the skills to better group information to make it clearer for people to understand. In this book Donna describes how to plan and use the card sorting methodology, then analyse the results and apply the findings to a project.
Start creating sitemaps with Figma’s Sitemap Generator.
Figma’s sitemap will quickly and effectively help plan out your website architecture, content and user flows with your team. There’s no need to use complicated XML lists, rather visual representations that can be easily dragged and dropped in place.