📄️ 1. Overview & Thesis
The thesis, evidence base, and anchoring decisions for the jodapp.com jobseeker redesign — read this first.
📄️ Theory & Method Foundations
The proven information-architecture theories and methods behind this plan, with honest labels for what is established, what is a presentation choice, and what popular ideas we avoided.
📄️ 2. Content Inventory
Everything a jobseeker must find, do, or understand — grouped by how often they need it, grounded in Singapore usage data.
📄️ 3. Vocabulary Lexicon
The exact words real Singapore users type, mapped to backend and product terms — the evidence base for every label in the navigation and filters.
📄️ 4. Navigation Hierarchy
A 2–3 level navigation structure with exact labels, validated against real user vocabulary — replacing the current three competing nav layers and fragmented brand.
📄️ 5. Taxonomy & Filters
A small, demand-matched, extensible category taxonomy and a prioritized filter set that gets a user to a relevant job list in under 3 clicks — with the exact backend work each requires.
📄️ 6. Primary Flows
The five critical user paths from entry to a completed application, each grounded in real entry-point data, with the current friction and the redesigned happy path.
📄️ 7. Screen Map
Every jobseeker screen, what it does, how it connects to its neighbours, and whether we keep, redesign, simplify, add, or remove it.
📄️ 8. Friction Points
The four moments where Singapore users are most likely to leave, ranked by how many we lose, with the reasons and the fixes.
📄️ 9. Prioritization Roadmap
What to build first, ranked by business impact and by engineering effort, sequenced for a team of 8 engineers with limited resources.