Findability. Findability is a term for the ease with which information contained on a website can be found, both from outside the website (using search engines and the like) and by users already on the website.
Although findability has relevance outside the World Wide Web, it is usually used in the context of the web. Heather Lutze is thought to be the creator of the term in early 2000s.[1] The popularization of the term "findability" for the Web is usually credited to Peter Morville. In 2005 he defined as: "the ability of users to identify an appropriate Web site and navigate the pages of the site to discover and retrieve relevant information resources", though it appears to have been first coined in a public context referring to the web and information retrieval by Alkis Papadopoullos in a 2005 article entitled "Findability"[2][3] Findability encompasses aspects of information architecture, user interface design, accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO), among others. Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture. Editor’s Note: (I have written a follow-up to this piece: More Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture.
Since I wrote this piece, I’ve had many conversations with information architects and designers alike, and in the new piece I’ve tried to really outline the problem: IA at its most basic is the wrong frame […] Christina Wodtke (who wrote the book on Information Architecture) is angry about its impending death: “I recalled a recent blogpost by Adam Greenfield and I found a clue. Wireframes Magazine.