IA's role
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The IAs I've worked with/for have had backgrounds in cognitive psych and/or human factors, so they really know their shit when it comes to making systems that are enormously complex relatively easy for a particular user base.
In those cases it helps to let an IA take the lead because they've been trained to analyze the way people unconsciously process information and how they come to understand the larger relationships between their actions and a system's responses.
Ideally the wireframe process should be an itterative one, where the IA and the designer bounce ideas off each other and then go and test thier ideas. That's the way it sort of worked at my last gig anyway.... (which might have been a rarity since it was a usability testing firm which had Graphic Designer and a Shrink as partners in the firm)....