Information Architecture
- Information architecture (IA)
- Wire frames
- Wire frame skeleton
- Clickable wire frames
- Content plan
- Functional specification
- Technical specification
- Formal creative brief
- Usability testing
In the Information Architecture phase we re-categorise your information and define your site hierarchy - how your website behaves in response to the user travelling through the site - the arrangement of content elements within the 'information space'.
We'll create...
- A content map to help with re-categorisation of your content
- An information architecture diagram, (usually starting life as a big Post-itT note workshop)
Development of the wireframe skeleton follows the information architecture diagram. This is all about the layout of information blocks, navigation design and interface design.
We'll develop...
- Wireframes (includes process flows and page description diagrams)
- Clickable interactive wire frames if required for user testing
- A full content plan
Finally, if the project requires it, we'll write formal specification documents:
- Functional specification
- Technical specification
- Formal creative brief
Some more of the clients who have used our User Experience and Information Architecture services include:
- COI Communications
- Directgov
- Ministry of Justice
- Judicial Communications Office
- Department of Health
- NHS
- DEFRA
- Welsh Assembly Government
- Visit Wales (Wales Tourist Board)
- Welsh Development Agency
- South Wales Police
- Careers Wales
- Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
- Children’s Work Force Development Council
This project was my first with S8080. Their Information Architecture process (a very comprehensive alignment session, site diagrams and detailed wire frames) enabled S8080 to bring all of their usability and accessibility knowledge to the table and provided us with quick prototypes to comment on and sign off. The design phase involved two creative routes, each of which would have stood up in their own right..... It's been a breath of fresh air working with you all!Jayne Kendall - Welsh Assembly Government
