Step 2

The RFP was simple. Too simple.

The information we received in order to design a software solution to Boeing's need was minimal. We were given a very basic information architecture and a list of functions. We had no access to users, only a few high-level stakeholders, and I suspected that there was more to the IA than met the eye.


I designed IA from the ground up

With the information I had available to me, I created a basic layout for the R&D project page, as projects were the fundamental unit of information, and the most data dense objects. The focus at this stage was communicating all the required information clearly and demonstrating domain expertise. As such our "user" was not actually the end user, and this presented a long-term challenge to the product design.