"A place for everything, and everything in its place" - Charles A. Goodrich
Tree testing starts with…of course…a tree.
By “tree”, we mean the hierarchical structure of your website or information space, represented as a multi-level list of headings:
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You may be testing an existing tree (e.g. the structure of your existing site) or trying out some new trees (revised, or completely rethought) to see how well they work.
While a full discussion of how to create site trees is beyond the scope of this guide, we’ll cover the basics and provide links to other good resources.
Generating ideas for site structures
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Picking candidates to test
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Posing questions about tree elements
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More on creating trees
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Chapter 5 - key points
Next: Chapter 6 - Preparing a tree for testing