How I plan a website structure (so it doesn’t turn into a mess)

How do you decide which pages a website actually needs, and how should they be organised? In this video, I’m taking you behind the scenes of a real website redesign for FireStart, an Austrian software company. I’ll show you how I go from research and an existing website to a new information architecture (IA) and sitemap. We’ll look at how I decide what deserves its own page, how I organise content without creating unnecessary overlap, and how I use user flows to check whether the structure makes sense. This is part of my website redesign series, where I’m documenting the process from discovery to design. 0:00 Why websites turn into a mess 0:35 Start with the people, not the pages 0:51 The Firestart project and discovery workshop 1:06 Researching competitors 1:44 What visitors need to know 3:03 Deciding what becomes a page 3:33 Auditing the existing website 4:15 Building the sitemap 6:10 Testing with user journeys Watch the discovery workshop video:    • How I run a website discovery workshop   Read the full process on my blog: https://www.bykatharina.com/blog/informati... My website: https://bykatharina.com