High-level Process for Interaction Design
To start, we assume some user research has already been conducted. Its deliverables include some combination of the following:
- Personas
- Use scenarios
- Content samples
- Feature lists and priorities
Design Stages
Here are possible design stages and deliverables. Some stages are not always present. For example, an interactive system with minimal content or commands may not require explicit stages for developing the information architecture.
- Content inventory
- Content samples
- List of content types
- Approximate frequencies
- Develop concept models
- Create high-level flowchart
- Create information architecture
- Consider possible organization schemes
- Card sorting
- Create site map
- Wireframe main content pages
- Wireframe navigation pages
- Develop detailed flowcharts for complex tasks
- Wireframe screens for complex tasks