Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify content needs
- Identify the strategic intent of the website from the business requirements and client expectations
- Develop information requirements based on the website’s intent, intended audiences, types of client interactions, and the long and short-term goals for the site
- Identify the required information, and group into business schemes related to the business structure
- Determine the content requirements for each process
- Identify any security access requirements
- Plan the content structure
- Develop the navigation system
- Test and sign off
- Construct the prototype of the information architecture design
- Arrange for a subset of the client to test the prototype for usability, and to determine if the architecture meets client expectations
- Ensure that the site content will format in the business and client technical environment
- Adjust the architecture based on client feedback
- Sign off the prototype, and confirm that current and future business requirements are met