Depends on the situation, audience, budget, time constraints, skill set of your team, and various other factors will affect what are the deliverables we need to have in information architecture
1. Conceptual Model
There are three types of models that occur when creating a product
Implementation models
Conceptual models
Mental models.
2. Content Inventory and Organization
a complete list of all the content that the site holds and will hold.
3. User Flows/Scenarios
User flows are simple diagrams that follow a user down a path of activity.
4. Task Analysis
This is a discrete step-by-step analysis of how users accomplish their desired tasks. This allows the IA to carefully analyze each step a user needs to complete any give task.
5. Site Map
This is the IA's workhorse, the one thing we all do when building a website.
6. Page Architecture
They must show items on page, importance of each item on page and behavior of each item on page
7. Decision tables
The tables allow precise documentation of the design of every interaction possible. It is especially useful when designing error handling.
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