Vicky Buser

Developing a subject-based taxonomy for GOV.UK

Gaynor Burns and Vicky Buser, 2 November 2015 - Finding things, Product changes

Why is the topic taxonomy important? We want users to be able to find related content across government about a particular topic via a single browse structure. This is central to  the vision for improving navigation on GOV.UK, as Ben …

Taking stock of GOV.UK’s information architecture

Vicky Buser and Gaynor Burns, 16 March 2015 - How we work

As information architects at GOV.UK it’s our job to organise, label and group content to help people find what they’re looking for. This blog post describes the work we did last year, the problems we identified during a thorough review …

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