The most common reason our clients say they need our help is because
their users can't find what they are looking for. We use the key
components of information architecture – structure, navigation, and
presentation of content – to provide long-term solutions to that
problem.
Digital Wave's Information Architecture process looks back to the
strategy and discovery that came before while anticipating the
immediacy of the design phases to follow. Though nothing has been
rendered at this point, the design is already being envisioned in this
phase and begins to take form in wire frame diagrams and content
strategies. In conjunction with these, we also take a detailed
inventory of your content and develop a new structure for its
presentation. We also help you make some tough decisions about what
content needs to be eliminated or redeveloped to meet your goals.
After we've completed the discovery phase, we'll map a full
Application Architecture, which completely defines all of the needed
functions, workflows, permission logic, and data points. This
blueprint view enables the site to be built-out from a functionality
standpoint, independent of the interface design layer.