Member-only story

Information architecture for UX Designers

A guide to basic documentation and better design

H Locke
Mar 24, 2021
Example of a user flow, asking “do you want your product to make any sense?” — all paths lead to “document your IA”

I’ve seen a number of projects fail to go live, fail to get stakeholder sign off, or just fail to make any sense to users because the design team have sprinted off straight into Screen Design Mode, without any thought to the overall architecture of their product or experience.

This is not to say that you have to spend months on IA before you start making things, but having a basic idea of how the thing will work, how the content will hang together, and where everything fits is essential. Even if it’s just a sitemap on a piece of paper.

Define IA for me?

Information architecture is everything you do to research, understand and

👋 the rest of this article and all other content from this blog has moved and is now available here.

Create an account to read the full story.

The author made this story available to Medium members only.
If you’re new to Medium, create a new account to read this story on us.

Or, continue in mobile web

Already have an account? Sign in

H Locke
H Locke

Written by H Locke

UX person. I design things and I study humans. 150+ articles on Substack https://hlockeux.substack.com/