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1. IA for Shopping & Shopping Baskets Li Cao
School of Information
The University of Texas at Austin
3. Introduction Over recent years, the Web has been developed from a simple browser to a multi-functional network place.
When it comes to building a successful website for shopping.
4. History of E-commerce 1984: EDI (electronic data interchange), was standardized through ASC X12.
1992: Mosaic web-browser was introduced.
1994: Netscape was introduced with Secure Sockets Layer technology.
1995: two biggest names in e-commerce - Amazon.com and eBay.com.
1998: DSL allows quicker access and a persistent connection to the Internet.
2000: the moratorium on Internet taxes was extended.
5. Why do People like Online Shopping
Convenience 84%
Saves time 72%
Avoids crowds 64%
Allows more time to research 61%
Lower prices 60%
no salespeople involved 55%
6. The Techniques which make online shopping possible The web developer has no built-in method for tracking a user or remembering data from one page to the next.
Two main methods for tracking data: cookies and sessions.
The difference between a session and a cookie;
A cookie --- stores data on the client’s side
(user’s machine)
A session --- stores data on the server
7. The IA Principles for the Design of the shopping website Differentiate your site from the others. (Duyne, Landay, & Hong, 2002)
Give customers effective browsing and searching tools.
Ease the purchase process.
Ease the customers’ security concern.
Provide a link to your “easy return policy” at an easy-to-find place on every page of you site.
Several methods to promote sales in your site.
Cross-selling
Up-selling
Personalized recommendations
8. Cross-sellingpromoting accessories related to the current choice.
9. Up-sellingpromoting a better or more expensive version of the current choice
10. Recommendation Community
11. The IA Principles for the design of the Shopping Basket Make the shopping basket easy to find
Provide the shopping basket with necessary features
Save items for further purchasing.
Number the pages during the checkout process
Order forms should be as simple as possible to help users to complete them quickly and without confusion.
Security is always customers’ big concern.
12. Conclusion Information architecture is the art and science of structuring and classifying web sites and intranets to help people find and manage information (Rosenfeld & Morville, 2002).
Information architecture can also be applied to help users to accomplish several commercial tasks.