Working World Blog » information architect http://www.workingworldblog.com Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:19:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Day in the Life: Web Meeting http://www.workingworldblog.com/2010/03/04/day-in-the-life-web-meeting/ http://www.workingworldblog.com/2010/03/04/day-in-the-life-web-meeting/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:05:23 +0000 Catherine http://www.workingworldblog.com/?p=371 There is way more to launching a website than meets the eye. We had another meeting with Dana, our project manager and Amy Mew, the Information Architect. That’s a career classification that didn’t exist 15 years. It’s her job to figure out the way to people consume information on a web page and layout the elements to be most effective. The stack of pages she gives to us is called an “IA Deck.” It’s all very exciting.

We approve the IA deck, then it goes to the designer, Dana, to be laid out in a graphically interesting style. Then I write the copy along with input from the people in the office (the “copy deck”) and the whole package goes to the developers to do their alchemy and magically produce a fabulous shiny new website.

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