Research: Prioritization Workshop: Information Architecture (IA) of Search Bar feature, using CKAN benchmarking
Prioritization Workshop - Identifying the Information Architecture (IA) for Search Bar feature, using CKAN benchmarking
April - May 2023
The Information Architecture (IA) of the 'Search Bar feature' is being built based on the options available across the three benchmarked CKAN websites The 3 benchmarked CKAN websites are as follows:
How do the product features on the benchmarked CKAN websites align with the team's product roadmap & prioritisation requirements?
- Identifying the Information Architecture of the Search Bar feature was vital as this is a repetitive feature on the home page/landing page of both Access the Data & the benchmarked CKANs. It is the data point and occurs three (3) times across the home page/landing page which is a testimony to the importance of building this feature first.
- This is also in line with the request from the development team to start building the features on the home/landing page. Such that overlaps with the product roadmap of the Project Management, Product Management & Engineering teams.
- Conducted collaborative participatory action research workshops. The workshops were iterative wherein research findings from Step 1 led to Step 2.
- Step 1: Prioritization Workshops with cross-functional Team
- Step 2: Forced Ranking with cross-functional Team
- Content Analysis was utilised across Step 1 & Step 2 to analyse & quantify the data and build consensus.
Definitions
- Prioritization workshops: Build consensus on which features customers (or other stakeholders) value most and prioritize them
- Forced ranking is the foundation of any prioritization exercise, including dot voting, prioritization matrixing, the $100 test, and the NUF (new, useful, feasible) test. Forced ranking is any collaborative prioritization activity that directly weighs items against each other in order to create a strict order.
- Cross-functional Team of Access the Data Includes: Product Owner, Project Manager, Product Manager, UX Designer, UX Writer, UX Researcher, Developers
- Data collection and data analysis complete
- Benchmarked the Search Bar Feature. The following features of the Search Bar tool have been prioritised for current product roadmap:
- Search Datasets (Search Bar)
- Order by (Drop down menu ----> Relevance, Name Ascending, Last Modified, Popular, Date Added)
- 6000+ datasets found.... All datasets listed out
- Example & best practice for the Search Bar Feature, replicated by Access the Data for current product roadmap
- Label: Research: Benchmarking
- Identifying the Information Architecture (IA) for the Search Bar feature, using CKAN benchmarking
- Impact of this UXR Project:
- All data search functions on the home/landing page lead to this Information Architecture on the second page. Hence it was vital to identify the tree/IA of the Search Bar feature.
- As per feedback from development team, it was vital to start building the features on the home page. UX Research influenced the prioritization of feature development:
- Impact on the product roadmap, worked on by the Project-Product Management Team: Website features audit
- Relevant google drive Development - Features
- Relevant google sheets Development - Features
IA for Search Bar feature, using CKAN benchmarking
Data Collection: Team Workshops
- MVP - Closed
- V1: Data Catalog - ON HOLD
- Domain Knowledge
- Research
- UX Writing Guide
- Site Design
- Software Development (redirects to CKAN repo)
- Operations Engineering (redirects to CKAN repo)
- PM Guide