Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Don't finalise the site structure until you've created page layouts (05 Sep 2005) There is a worrying trend emerging in the field of information architecture: organisations are attempting to finalise site structures without evaluating their effectiveness in the context of a web page. Card sorting and card-based classification provide excellent insights into the inherent structure behind content. Both are excellent tools for defining strict taxonomies, but they do not necessarily generate the most approachable structure for a site. Content centred design is not necessarily user centred design. Article URL: http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/cmb_dontfinaliseia/index.html Read 111 more articles from Step Two sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: High-Resolution Image Printing     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy