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We can now sketch out some new structures to test. Let’s take a look at the most common ways sites are organized, and some common tactics that can help us create our own trees.
Team-sourcing ideas
If you’re working with a project team, you have an advantage in generating ideas for site trees – other people’s brains.
Different people have different backgrounds, different knowledge, and different biases, and if we share our IA research with them, they are likely to come up with new and useful ideas for our site structure.
When we’re working with a project team, we typically do the following:
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For easy collaboration, we use a shared spreadsheet (e.g. Google Drive or equivalent) with:
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- ss of GD spreadsheet with team member’s contributions.
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Using a shared spreadsheet means that we don’t have to email spreadsheets to each other, and each person can “peek” at what others are doing to help them get going.
Roughing out alternative trees
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