Displaying content as a graph: An exploration | This is important

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Most web content is displayed as a strict hierarchy, tree-based or otherwise. What if it wasn't?An exploration into the advantages of graph-based content design, the numerous pitfalls, and a few case studies along the way.

Most web content is designed to display with a strict hierarchy, tree-based or otherwise. What if it wasn't? What does it mean to display content as a graph? # Instead of being displayed as a strict hierarchy, content could be placed in multiple categories within a hierarchy, using a polyhierarchy , or displayed as a series of interlinked nodes in a network—a graph. Displaying content as a graph could visually communicate the relationships between ideas, tasks, and topics in technical content. A hierarchy also does this, but doesn't always match the actual relationships between ideas and conce

Displaying content as a graph: An exploration | This is important

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