Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify project requirements
- Discuss design briefs with relevant personnel to clarify production requirements
- Identify technical parameters of interactive media products, including the delivery platform, that may influence the architecture
- Identify characteristics of target audience or users who will seek and search content
- Assess content to be integrated into or generated by interactive media products
- Classify and organise content
- Research and select relevant thesaurus and metadata standards or tagging methodology
- Organise and construct a content inventory, using classification techniques such as taxonomy or folksonomy, to detail levels of hierarchy
- Assign content labels that are appropriate and meaningful for target audiences
- Identify content search and browse requirements
- Discuss proposed content classification with relevant personnel to confirm it meets project requirements
- Draft information architecture design specifications
- Sketch overall architecture, showing relationships and pathways between interactive content
- Design forms that detail content input process, if required
- Specify search functionality and search return displays
- Construct wireframes of the content architecture and navigation pathways
- Write draft design specifications and advice for development teams
- Present draft design specifications for discussion and feedback from other team members
- Amend draft design specifications to accommodate feedback as required
- Discuss final draft design specifications with clients and adjust if necessary to meet project requirements
- Finalise information architecture designs