Sustainability Lab website · information architecture
Where every page goes
All 50 pages of today’s site on the left, the new structure on the right. Each line shows where a page’s content ends up. Nothing is lost: pages are merged, turned into tabs or filters, or moved to the handbook.
/ Home
├─ research overview: four problems
│ └─ air · health · energy · earth
├─ work one library: papers, data, code, explainers
├─ people tabs: team · alumni · stories · photos
│ └─ stories/<name> 16 alumni stories
├─ news one feed + awards, press, events
├─ handbook start here + 6 short pages
│ └─ how-we-work · writing · skills · reading · compute · design-kit
└─ join the only button in the menu
Rules the structure follows
One home per thing. Every paper, person and award lives in one place; other pages link or filter to it.
Tabs and filters, not pages. Media, awards and events are filters of News; alumni, stories and photos are tabs of People.
No dropdowns. Five words in the menu, one button, and ⌘K search reaching every page, paper and person.
Public vs members. The handbook is public, since applicants like seeing how the lab works, but kept out of the way of visitors.
Two levels, max. Section → page. Microsites (JoulesEye, SentinelKilnDB, VayuBuddy, Summer School) stay separate and are linked.