Vizzuality playbook in progress
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Working out Information Architecture and key principles to consider when thinking about how different features relate to each other.
Give everyone a few postits/ pieces of paper and ask them to think about a concept or metaphor that describes the website for them. For example, is it a tree: something with lots of hidden roots, a single main visible part and lots of branches. Or is it a Laboratory; a place to experiment, create new knowledge? Give everyone 5 minutes or so to think of ideas, then ask them to present one by one. After all the ideas we have a round of questions and voting to see the concepts which best capture what we’re aiming for.
A good example. Mozilla and PSA.
Time needed. 35 minutes. 2 minutes to set up, 5 minutes thinking, 18 minutes presenting and thinking, 10 minutes voting