Happy Christmas and New Years everyone! I hope you are all ready for a well deserved break.
The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights from our final iteration of the year.
Web
The Web team develops and maintains most of Canonical’s sites like ubuntu.com, canonical.com and more.
Updating the ubuntu.com main navigation
Working with user research we looked at our current navigation on ubuntu.com. We wanted to understand how effective our current menu is, and compared it against a new, potential information architecture. We used a tree jack – a research method that asks users where they would find a piece of information, and presents them with nested drop down menus that represent the current mega menu.
We can then analyse the results to see what route participants take – what do they find easily, and where they go wrong. This gives us…
