Today’s National Law Review Guest Blogger Jeff Roberts of Moiré Marketing Partners explains Why Information Architecture Is The Most Important Part of Designing a Website:
You just bought a parcel of land and are planning to build a brand new home, your dream home. Would you start building this home without an architecture or floor plan? I would hope not. And the same goes for building a website.
Blueprints are to a house, like sitemaps and wireframes are to a website. Information architecture requires a significant amount of hours of research and discovery long before the designer touches the canvas with their interactive tools. Eliminating this step will create a website that is not targeted to any research or your audience, a site that’s not user-friendly and lacks strategy. At Moiré, we believe design without strategy is just art. This results in project scope-creep, missed deadlines and unhappy clients! Full Text:
http://natlawreview.com/article/why-information-architecture-most-important-part-designing-website