Tom Alexander

Tom Alexander
Taxonomy Manager
Cancer Research UK

Tom Alexander is a taxonomy expert with 26 years' experience in helping people find what they are looking for. Across large media libraries, e-commerce sites and in the third sector, he has built and maintained hierarchical vocabularies to structure and label digital assets, web content and internal knowledge. He has also worked with UXers, Content experts, Product Managers, Service Designers and UI Designers to improve the findability experience of digital products. He is now working to consolidate taxonomy, ontology, site search and information architecture as a four-pronged findability system to further improve the findability of Cancer Research UK's world-class content.

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp Online 2025

Wednesday, 12 March 2025

3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Use cases: taxonomies in action

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2024

Wednesday 19 June 2024

3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Taxonomies in Action

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2023

Wednesday 22 March 2023

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Putting taxonomy and UX best practice into action

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2022

Wednesday 23 March 2022

3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Taxonomies in action

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2019

Tuesday 15 October 2019

2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Validating a taxonomy with stakeholders

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2018

Tuesday 16 October 2018

11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

Taxonomy development and user validation