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Group A

**Critique the relevance of Information Architecture in Website designing.**
Note: This is meant to be a group task that will be presented in the class. You must also be prepared to answer questions posed by other groups as well as other participants. It is strongly advised that every member of the group should participate fully. Questions can be directed to any of the group members. Also, your group task and performance at the presentation will add up to form your continous assessment. You can also contact the teacher anytime you need clarification Information architecture (IA) is also task or skill of designing website such that highest possible usability standard is achieved, making it easy for anybody to navigate the website without any supervision; thus having great satisfaction with tranquility but not frustrated on leaving the site. Most importantly, in a well organized site, users will find their information need quickly and efficiently, thus making their experience intuitive, pleasurable and satisfying, and leaving the site with a positive opinion. Moreover in well organized information architecture with intuition, there will be assurance that all the phases of the website development run smoothly and efficiently. Time-consuming / wasting can also be avoided as well as costly alterations to the website’s visual design and development by pin pointing required attributes or features, the number and location of navigational links and the placement of contents early in the process. However, if the site is being constructed in a Content Management System (CMS) which gives room for editing, the site may grow fast, at times in confusing ways; but if the organizational structure of the site has been well planned it will be easy to identify the most intuitive location for the additional information. From the submission so far, it is clear that IA is very crucial in website designing for developing navigational structure and providing clues to help in using the site efficiently.
 * Question: Critique the relevance of Information Architecture in website designing. **
 * Answer: **
 * Information architecture** is the arrangement of organization of a website, particularly in order that separate pages of the site will have to do with one another. It also includes the order in which information is displayed on each page, as well as navigation scheme selected.
 * The relevance** of information architecture cannot be overemphasized in website designing because IA focuses on designing effective navigation, arrangement/organization, labeling, and search systems. In actual facts, good information architecture lays the foundation upon which a good website is built. In other words, for website to be fruitful and effective the information architecture needs to be well spelt out and implemented.

As a whole, the process of web design includes conceptualization, planning, producing, post-production, research, advertising as well as media control that is applied to the pages within the site by the designer or group of designers with a specific purpose. The site itself can be divided into its main page, also known as the home page, which cites the main objective as well as highlights of the site's daily updates; which also contains hyperlinks that functions to direct viewers to a designated page within the site's domain.
 * AYANLOLA ALIRAT OLAWUMI**
 * Website designing **is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are shaped by the web designer to produce the page seen on the web browser. Web designers utilize markup language, most notably for structure and for presentation to develop pages that can be read by web browsers.
 * Website Designing **is also the art and process of creating a single Web page or entire Web sites and may involve both the aesthetics and the mechanics of a Web site's operation although primarily it focuses on the look and feel of the Web site - the design elements.

 Website Designing can also be said to be a multidisciplinary pursuit pertaining to the planning and production of Web sites, including, but not limited to, technical development, information structure, visual design, and networked delivery. Because Web design is so multidisciplinary, it is often appropriate to pull ideas and theories from related fields.


 *  NAME: AYANLOLA ALIRAT OLAWUMI **
 * MATRIC NO: 159638 **


 * GANIYU, Z.A. **
 * MATRIC NO: 161289 **