Before beginning to create content for our website (resources, information, our projects), we spent a substantial amount of time brainstorming what content we wanted for the site and how it would be organized. First, we brainstormed using whiteboards as a group. Then we grouped sticky notes, labeled with a particular page or category for content, to visually organize the structural ideas we had for our website.

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If you’re interested in information architecture, or how content is effectively structured, categorized, and organized, check out the following resources: