[IxDA Discuss] deliverables of an IA process?

[James Melzer]

If you are doing a more metadata-centric type of IA project, you might
also deliver specs relevant for search engines, navigation structures,
and metadata tagging, such as:

- Card sorting or other user research report
- Controlled vocabularies (in either human- or machine-readable form)

I recommend both the Polar Bear book and the Whiteboard book for
further reading.
http://www.amazon.com/Information-Architecture-World-Wide-Web/dp/0596527349/
http://www.amazon.com/Communicating-Design-Developing-Documentation-Planning/dp/0321392353/

-- 
James Melzer
http://www.jamesmelzer.com
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On 2/12/07, Todd Zaki Warfel <lists at toddwarfel.com> wrote:
> We generally produce the following artifacts for a website (re)design:
> 1. Personas
> 2. A task analysis grid (http://toddwarfel.com/archives/the-task-
> analysis-grid/)
> 3. Sitemap
> 4. Wireframes (behavior design spec)
>
> For applications we design, we generally skip the sitemap, but still
> produce the other artifacts.
>
> On Feb 12, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Sunandini Basu wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > What are generally the deliverables of an IA process for a website?
> >
> > I'll be doing a cluster analysis, then a site structure diagram.
> > How should I communicate to the rest of the team what the IA is?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Soo
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Todd Zaki Warfel
> Partner, Design & Usability Specialist
> Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
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