Over the weekend I met with my friend Ren Pope to talk Information Architecture (as well as careers, korean food and the word progress). Ren promotes the idea of being an advocate for the information itself, and to do what he calls an "information archeology." He shared with me some of his ideas on how to tackle a large IA project (ahem, Drupal Docs) from the standpoint of the information itself.
He advises 2 concurrent steps to start out with, and it sounded like these might best be done by different people. Part one is taking time to understand and model the architecture of the content management system (or whatever framework you're using). Part two is to ...
Posted June 16th by Becca.
