Usability.  Findability.  These are vital attributes of any effective website.  Information architecture is the process of organising and labelling websites to optimise usability and findability.

IA development is not a process where Headscape will disapear into a dark corner to perfect a neat set of deliverables.  It’s a process that we facilitate with our clients.

The process of developing an information architecture promotes dialogue between those involved in developing a website and its stakeholders.  It often challenges traditions, long held beliefs and the fundamentals of how an organisation presents itself to the outside world.  It is not a process where Headscape will disapear into a dark corner to perfect a neat set of deliverables.  It’s a process that we facilitate.

Our approach to the development of information architecture uses various methods.

• Paper-based wireframing and hierarchy development with the client during workshops
• Detailed wireframing using tools such as Balsamiq
• Prototyping (to create clickable wireframes) using tools such as Flairbuilder
• Card sorting to capture user inputs regarding natural groupings of content.  In practice the dialogue with target users that a card sorting exercise facilitates can be as useful as the sorting exercise itself.
• Hierarchy development.  Typically we do this by making the hierarchy interactive as a simple website.
• Usability testing wireframes and hierarchies.

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