The Holy Grail of Information Architecture

Christopher Fahey's says that, the Holy Grail of Information Architecture is a versatile, powerful, and entirely mythical document format that almost every IA has fantasized about. Depending on who you talk to, embodies most or all of the following qualities:

• It combines site mapping, process flow logic, and wireframming into a single entity
• It allows atomic-level interface modules to be modified or replaced globally
• It is accessible via a web browser
• It can be printed
• It simulates the user experience via click-throughs from page to page or feature to feature
• It permits extensive feature annotation for programmers, bordering on functional specifications
• It is fast and fluid for the document creator