WEB SERVICES PLATFORM
Platform Architecture
Goal: Make it easy for end users to navigate related articles, products, and topics while browsing a media or news site.
This diagram represented the flow of available actions to the end user through all FizzyLab services including exploring related articles, related products, related topics, and the ability to have specific subjects tracked for you.
WEB SERVICES PLATFORM
FizzyLab Article Page
Goal:
Create a flexible set of standard placements for our partner sites that encouraged users to explore related articles and surface related products and topics in an obvious but non-intrusive way.
Make it possible to navigate between all related information pages.
Solution: Use prominent text links to display related articles between the title and body of the current article. Use visual containers to display related products and topics. Create a consistent navigation system across the top of the results pages to tell the user where they are at and what other areas they can explore.
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Related Products Page
The related products page showed products and highly prominent links to let consumers find other related content.
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FizzyLab Service on Time.com
Goal: Find effective places within the layout of Time.com to display related articles, products, and subject tracking tool.
Solution: Use prominent text links to display related articles between the title and body of the current article. Use visual containers to display related products and topics. Create a consistent navigation system across the top of the results pages to tell the user where they are at and what other areas they can explore.
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Related products on Time.com
Related products used the same template as FizzyLab to let people easily navigate to other types of related content.