The content inventory is probably the most dreaded, mind-numbing, soul-sucking task that any user experience professional ever has to endure. I developed the 10 Minute Content Inventory to help take some of the pain out of creating content inventories.
The 10 Minute Content Inventory is a semi-automated process that includes a combination of site spidering, screen-scraping, and macros to automate some of the more mundane tasks associated with creating a content inventory document.
This helps free up the UX professional to spend more time performing actual content analysis, instead of spending days compiling and QA-ing a giant spreadsheet.
Although the process may sound a little daunting, I’ve trained some very non-technical UX professionals to use this process.
This article is the first in a four-part series of articles on the 10 Minute Content Inventory.
- Introduction to the 10 Minute Content Inventory
- Automatically Index a Content Inventory with GetUXIndex()
- Using Spidering and Screen Scraping to Streamline a Content Inventory
- Advanced Excel Techniques for Content Inventories