Jason, this is a great thread to open and I am completely in agreement
with what you have said here. I will read your post in a moment.
I work in a team of 5. a head of digital, an account manager, a search
manager, a head of tech, a senior developer and an interface developer.
I am the interface developer. Within this role I am also the
information architect, the user experience designer and front end
developer. I understand your plight.
I am fortunate in that the head of digital has passed on a lot of his
knowledge to me on information architecture processes and how they work
within the project flow. It is not his area of specialism but he does
have a good understanding but is not available for mindshare for any
length of time.
Being a small team we all muck in and our skillsets are vast. We have
to be adaptable until the team grows. Until I have a team of IA's and
UXD's around me I will need to start talking about my design processes
as you outline here. I think it would also be of benefit to network
with people like you and me in this situation too. We can talk about
our design processes amongst ourselves and help each other to maximise
our efficiency and increase the resource of information.
I have also asked to join the mentoring scheme
http://www.ixda.org/mentor.php as I feel this will help keep me focused
and create further avenues of support. We should help each other Jason,
feel free to contact me and we can talk through the best method of
sharing knowledge.
Kevin Rapley
http://digikev.co.uk
http://brumixda.wordpress.com
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