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Mortgage Site Architecture

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Problem

SunTrust Bank's mortgage section of website had grown organically without clear structure, requiring comprehensive IA redesign to improve findability, eliminate redundancy, and create logical organization that served customer needs during site overhaul.

What I Did

Inventoried existing mortgage section structure and content | Designed new site architecture optimizing organization and findability | Created site map showing strategic additions, deletions, and page consolidations

Impact

Improved mortgage content discoverability through logical IA restructuring | Eliminated content redundancy and organizational confusion | Provided clear blueprint for implementation across major banking website

Lessons

Information architecture is as much about what you remove as what you add—consolidating redundant pages and eliminating dead ends often improves findability more than adding new navigation. As part of the SunTrust.com site overhaul, inventoried the existing site structure and content, then mapped a new architecture by adding, deleting, augmenting and combining pages and features for the mortgage section.

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