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Website designers should check out Information Architecture concepts.

There are volumes on IA that go well beyond the scope of a single blog entry, and I encourage anyone who is interested in website design or simple surfing to at least browse one or two, if not take the time to thoroughly study the concepts. The larger websites of the world are designed by teams these days, and those teams typically have a person or person(s) responsible for and educated in IA, but the majority of sites are still put together by individuals who give cursory if any consideration for the organization of the content within the sites. (There are still large organizations that apparently have little or no understanding of IA, or else have allowed the concepts to fall victim to internal politics — I won’t name names, but will generalize that higher education and some e-commerce sites are impossible to comfortably surf on occasions.)

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