Information+Architecture

=**Awesome Persona Vision Statement Link**= []

=**More Links to Information about Information Architecture**=

Bulletin with great links to IA articles
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Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning the Right Way
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Where Wireframes Are Concerned
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Wireframing ahoy!
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Online Card Sorting Tool
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PebbleRoad: Designing collection for the web
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Tree Testing - The design behind the design
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How I Draft an Information Architecture
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The Content Strategist as Digital Curator
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Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices
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How to Create Clear Web Navigation Menus
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=Summary of Conversation with Niki Stanley (September 2009)= []

Here is a basic summary from our phone conference with Niki. Other helpful information:
 * 1) Director of department talks with client to go over client uptake form.
 * Web site goals
 * Web site designs the client likes
 * Web site functionality the client likes
 * 1) Director educates the client on the process and what is expected from the client.
 * 2) Niki does a preliminary content inventory (Note: this is done for some potential projects but if the project does not come through, then the company does not get paid for the time spent on any preliminary work.)
 * 3) Clear client and user goals are created and listed on the project brief (similar to the creative brief).
 * 4) Most information on the project brief is organized into bullet points.
 * 5) Clients are very interested in seeing the competitive analysis – especially how the client’s site compares to the other sites.
 * 6) Documents are typically only given to the client to get feedback.
 * 7) Summaries rather than full documents are given to the client regarding things like:
 * User tests
 * Resolutions to issues found during the project
 * 1) Typically, Niki uses a web-based wireframe prototype tool rather than paper-based wireframes.
 * The organization of the content and writing copy takes a large majority of the project time.
 * Niki typically starts a project by:
 * Creating a content inventory
 * Doing a competitive analysis
 * Looking at web analytics
 * The user research typically comes from the discussion between the director and client as well as user tests (when done).