Assignment #5: Site Flow & Information Architecture

For this assignment, you'll need to flesh out the flow and information architecture for the project that you're working on. You should create for this assignment:

Step 1: Preliminary sketches of site structure

• These should be literal sketch pages, on paper, of the site’s structure.
• You should flesh out several of these, but pick 2-3 best ones (including final).
• Then, scan/take a photo of these.
• Combine these photos into a single PDF.
• Annotate PDF

Use the program of your choice (e.g., Acrobat, Evernote or Preview) to annotate the PDF with Sticky Notes. The annotations should highlight your team’s thought process.

Comment on things that worked/didn’t work for each iteration. For example: "We showed a few outsiders and they didn’t think it made sense to label the About Page “history”. Describe how you arrived at the final choice.

These are not layout wireframes.

Step 2: Create a finalized map of your site map

This will be more refined than your sketches. Create a map using whatever works (Illustrator, Lucidchart, Balsamiq, Preview, Evernote, etc…).

Export/save the final form in a PDF.

This should look something like this.

These are not layout wireframes.

Step 3: Combine these into a SINGLE PDF

Combine all of these into a single PDF (make sure you don’t lose your annotations).

Properly name your file: A5-Project-Team-With-Hyphens.pdf

Points will be deducted for sloppy naming.

Step 4: Upload the PDF to Slack and mention us

Upload your final PDF to Slack. @emily and @rob to make sure we give you the 👍

Due: 11:59 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9

Points possible: 20