#information architecture
11 pieces filed under “information architecture”.
Internal linking is architecture, not an afterthought
Internal linking is information architecture, not a plug-in. Hub-and-spoke models, anchor-text discipline, related-content automation, and measuring crawl paths.
AI answers vs good navigation: choose deliberately
Replacing your site's navigation with an AI answer box is rarely the upgrade it looks like. A decision framework for AI search vs structured browse, honestly measured.
Article indexes people actually browse
Most blog indexes are a reverse-chronological conveyor belt. Here's how we design journal indexes that invite real browsing — lead stories, rhythm, and honest pagination.
Draw the sitemap before anyone opens Figma
The sitemap is the cheapest UX artefact you'll ever make and the one teams skip most. Map user questions to pages, audit navigation debt, realign stakeholders fast.
Settings IA: where features go to be findable
Settings screens are where growing products quietly drown. Grouping by user intent, search-within-settings, destructive zoning and how to migrate categories safely.
Information architecture for marketing sites: the growth lever in plain sight
IA decides what buyers find, what search engines index and what survives a redesign. The nav-to-journey map, the three-level ceiling and URLs that outlive themes.
Workspaces and orgs: the UX of switching context
Where the workspace switcher lives, URL strategy per tenant, cross-space notifications, and preventing wrong-org mistakes without nannying confirm dialogs.
Settings: the screen your product is judged on at month three
Nobody evaluates settings during the trial; by month three they're how users judge you. Defaults as decisions, dangerous-action design, searchable settings.
Settings screens grow up: running the product surface nobody loves
Settings rot quietly — accreted toggles, orphaned features, dangerous defaults. A rubric for what earns a setting, and the quarterly audit that keeps it honest.
Navigation that survives the 375px test
Hamburger alternatives for content-heavy sites: visible-priority nav, hybrid patterns, light mega menus, breadcrumbs as wayfinding, and measuring findability properly.
The footer is a sitemap with manners
Footers are the most neglected designed surface on the web. A taxonomy of trustworthy footer patterns — navigation, reassurance, colophons — and what each one earns.