{"id":2701,"date":"2010-05-21T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T13:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2020-01-23T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T22:55:10","slug":"finding-your-way-around-site-maps-with-the-toronto-ux-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/finding-your-way-around-site-maps-with-the-toronto-ux-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Your Way Around Site Maps with the Toronto UX Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2748\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/site_maps.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2748\" title=\"site_maps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/site_maps.jpg\" alt=\"A sample of some of the site maps created during our UX discussion\" width=\"350\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sample of some of the site maps created during our UX discussion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the interactive digital world always evolving, keeping up with the latest trends and innovations can become a full time job on its own.\u00a0 Reading books, online articles, blogs, RSS feeds, Twitter are all great ways to stay informed but sometimes nothing beats a good discussion with your peers as a learning tool.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday I participated in a bi-weekly UX mentorship group that included IA&#8217;s and UXers of various levels of experience and from various companies in Toronto such as Delvinia,\u00a0Critical Mass, Klick and Rogers to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>On the agenda this week was a common task of most web projects: creating a Site Map.\u00a0 We began by discussing how we approach creating a site map, common roadblocks and methods for presenting the site map and other site map creating best practices and tips.\u00a0 We moved on to a hands-on exercise where we created a site map with continued discussion.<\/p>\n<p>It is refreshing to know that the Toronto IA and UX community is always ready, willing and able to share their knowledge and expertise with their peers.\u00a0We don&#8217;t discuss clients or specific projects, we concentrate on the challenges that we&#8217;ve encountered giving us the freedom to just talk openly about the tasks and end solutions.\u00a0 As an IA\/UXer I know that it&#8217;s our jobs to craft the best user experience we can.\u00a0It only makes sense that we take the time to help each other out while doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the interactive digital world always evolving, keeping up with the latest trends and innovations can become a full time job on its own.\u00a0 Reading books, online articles, blogs, RSS feeds, Twitter are all great ways to stay informed but sometimes nothing beats a good discussion with your peers as a learning tool. On Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[792],"tags":[773,128,129,38,45,742],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22335,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/22335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}