[Sigia-l] RE: Notes from IA/UX discussion on CMS

[Doug Howell (IT)]

Leo Frishberg wrote:

<q>The shift was dramatic:  rather than creating wireframes that just informed
visual designers and engineers, my wireframes now had to account for the
technology itself - an additional layer of information design in the
development documents themselves. </q> 

Gunnar Langemark wrote:

<q>One challenge (even recently) has been that web site production (including
IA work) has not been prepared for CMS. IA deliverables like wireframes and
structure do not in their standard form account for the cool stuff you can
do with a CMS.</q>


Care to describe in more detail (or refer to examples) how you enhanced your deliverables (or created new ones) to document the added layers of information?

Thanks
Doug Howell
Information Architect
Borders Group Inc.