[thelist] visual designers list - perceptions of IA

Ron Dorman rwd at csi1st.net
Tue Apr 16 21:49:01 CDT 2002


I owe a tip for this one but can't resist:

isaac wrote:

>
>>>Unaffordable for the majority of SME sites. Not every project
>>>
>>has a budget
>>
>>>that can warrant attention to IA (unfortunately).
>>>
>>I'd have to disagree with this statement entirely.  Every project
>>MUST have
>>an IA stage whether or not you choose to call it that.  Even if it's
>>something so simple as drawing the sitemap on a napkin, a planning phase
>>must occur.  To not do so is to make the project more complex than it need
>>be.  A little bit of stopping and thinking before running and
>>jumping goes a long way.
>>
>
>
>Sorry, I didn't phrase my response very well. I meant that the budgets
>rarely allow for the involvement of a specialist IA, in the same way that
>they rarely allow for the involvement of a specialist copywriter. If you can
>only get $x for a project, when you should be charging $5x, how often are
>you going to choose to reduce your own percentage to make sure the copy and
>IA is perfect? In the vast majority of cases, the average web developer will
>handle these things themselves.
>
isacc . . .  this is because you are working down south!  like us West
Texans, you learn to work with what you got, right!

I think this is an important aspect of what we all do, and one of the
reasons I sooooo like this list.  We have the "cream of the crop" in so
many aspects of "web work".  Those that have to "do it all" do it well
and hone our skills from reading what specialists post.  Specialists get
a wider perspective from the "do it all" folks. We all get better at
what we do just by typing letters into our mail clients.

This is good stuff!

Ron D.





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