📋 Template Overview

Purpose

Evaluate the findability and effectiveness of a website or application's information architecture by testing navigation structures without visual design influence.

When to Use This Template

• Validating navigation structures before visual design begins
• Comparing multiple IA alternatives to determine the best structure
• Identifying navigation problems in existing sites or apps
• Testing category labels and hierarchical relationships
• Optimizing content placement within existing structures

Key Benefits

✓ Isolates IA from visual design for pure structure testing

✓ Provides quantitative metrics for navigation effectiveness

✓ Identifies specific structural problems before expensive design work

✓ Validates user mental models against proposed taxonomy

✓ Enables data-driven decisions about navigation changes

🎯 SECTION 1: PLANNING YOUR TREE TEST

1.1 Define Testing Objectives

Core Questions to Answer: