Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches

The Information Architect Role in Practice

Fabrice Hebert is the former managing director of Oven Digital, one of New York's best boutique interactive design shops. Fabrice joined Oven as a project manager and in short order optimized Oven's production process. Oven is well known for its front-end design capabilities. The jewel, so to speak, in its client roster is Tiffany.com. In this interview Fabrice discusses how Oven uses information architects and the Oven design process.

Can you tell us about the role information architects play at Oven?

The information architect department overlaps with all the other departments. Actually, in our methodology we call everything information architecture. This department is the one writing the whole process ...