Design theory: The design of the UI interface of the classified information website

For the classified information Web site, there is already a very good program UI interface results, but for a new site, copy the mature structure of the site is not necessarily a good thing, because your site content and users are uncertain, so for the initial classification of information sites, the more simple the interface to do less likely to effect better.

A few days ago a friend did a similar net like the classification of information sites, think the link too much visual too messy, let me help look at the UI (avoid advertising is not to address the site), is basically a small version of the market. In the information classification, is to do so: large categories of real estate, recruitment, vehicle trading, making friends and so on such large categories, each of the major categories below the breakdown of demand, such as housing for rent, together rent, second-hand house, day rental, shops ... Altogether 10 or so big class, each big class below 10 or so small class.

What's it like? Our family in a small county in the south, many people have built their own houses, together is 4, 5-storey small building, the result is 3 home 8 rooms 7 toilets.

The seemingly seamless classification system, to a certain extent, is also a user-approved category dimension, but ignores the amount of content and content management. In fact, I would like to express a summary of the view is: A successful website information system is placed on a new Web site, the system is mostly redundant.

A lot of people do competitor analysis, see only 100, ignoring from 0-1, from 1-10, from 10-100 of the process, if for a completely no reference field, just start should be no classification, only when the content accumulated to a certain process, just know how to organize information, this also confirms that "demand is never created, was found to be excavated. "

For example, the earliest QQ is no friend classification, the early Gmail also did not label, the beginning of the end of the earth is only a few sections, because a new product, basically there is no way to foresee the use of users; When the content quantity is not enough, it is difficult to find the information dimension and law. a new system, the early should be thinner the better.

And, when we want to copy other people's information system, to see if it conforms to the content of your business, such as Tag,tag this organization in the picture (Flickr), Web page (delicious) article such as its own dimensions, many entrances, difficult to organize information, tag is appropriate. But see a lot of use tag of some websites, actually completely unnecessary, on the one hand increases the complexity of the system, but also very difficult to use.

From a user's point of view, we face a huge amount of information every day, how do we filter filtering? Classification index?
First get a job example, a lot of recruitment tips at the end will be prompted: Mail title Please specify: "UE", but I found that some of the candidates to ignore this, the company will receive more than n resumes, also recruit different positions, in the mailing list side search "UE" two words, all resumes come out, if you are not in the title, is it a loss?
This also speaks of email, a good information architect must also be a good content producer . In writing content, especially the title, in addition to express clearly the content of the expression, but also pay attention to the layout of keywords in order to index later.
For example, mobile phone contact person, gtalk contact person, how do we manage, find, classify? How do each software and mobile phone meet this demand?