Information Architecture
This past week I have been working on a new Information Architecture for the staff web at my coop job.
I have learned so much in this single week it is amazing! I had read a book on information architecture at the beginning of the term, and it gave me an idea of what I had to do, but physically doing it is just so much more different.
My initial ideas were alright, but as I worked on it I kept discovering things I could do differently, do in a more intuitive, or organized way.
Then my boss’s boss began helping me out here and there (she did this kind of thing a lot at her previous job), and I learned more than the entire book had taught me.
She was just so effective at explaining why we needed to do what we were doing, which just brought everything together in my head.
And even thought the architecture for the staff website is really simple, that’s what it needed to be, and I think that this was the idea she really showed me. It’s new vision is a simple one, and the simpler the architecture, the more it will force the site to stay that way.
