Desenvolvimento de uma taxonomia de conteúdos para o repositório digital de user experince (REDIUX)

Abstract

This paper presents the construction of the taxonomy of the digital repository themed on User Experience (UX), REDIUX. The platform is designed to help the academic community, specifically students and teachers on the Digital Design course, search for User Experience content. The project to create the taxonomy aims to make the search for content more accessible and organized for the user. Six steps were adopted to structure the taxonomy: (1) exploratory research into similar repositories; (2) card sorting; (3) application of the dynamics for defining categories and key terms, with the repository’s developers; (4) application of the dynamics for defining complementary search terms and content characteristics, with the repository’s users; (5) creation of the prototype following the taxonomy; (6) evaluation of the prototype’s usability. The solution to the taxonomy was a set of thirty search terms, four media categories with five subcategories for each and eleven characteristic tags for qualifying content. The first version of a low-fidelity prototype was made in order to externalize this taxonomy. This prototype was then evaluated with users and recommendations for improvements were made. Finally, a second, improved version of the prototype representing the REDIUX taxonomy was generated.