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name: information-architecture-and-navigation description: | Reference-grade information architecture and navigation: organization/labeling/navigation/ search systems, taxonomy depth-vs-breadth, every nav pattern per device, wayfinding, findability. triggers:

• "information architecture"
• "navigation design"
• "site map structure"
• "card sorting analysis"
• "tree testing"
• "findability audit" das: type: skill category: interaction-polish upstream: "https://github.com/jpoindexter/design-and-ai-skills" upstream_path: "design-system-skills/information-architecture-and-navigation/SKILL.md" version: latest

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information-architecture-and-navigation

Catalogue stub — full skill: jpoindexter/design-and-ai-skills

Decision tree

1. Is the full skill already installed?

   • Global: grep -q "^das:" ~/.agents/skills/information-architecture-and-navigation/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null && echo "pointer" || echo "installed"
   • Project: grep -q "^das:" .agents/skills/information-architecture-and-navigation/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null && echo "pointer" || echo "installed"
   • No das: block → full skill installed, invoke and proceed
   • das: block present → go to step 2

2. Detect scope, then install:

   [ -e ~/.agents/skills/information-architecture-and-navigation ] && echo "global" || echo "project"
   

   Global:

   npx skills add jpoindexter/design-and-ai-skills --skill information-architecture-and-navigation -g -y
   

   Project:

   npx skills add jpoindexter/design-and-ai-skills --skill information-architecture-and-navigation -y
   

   Claude Code: send either command as a chat message starting with ! to run it without leaving the conversation.

What it does

A 23.8KB IA reference built on Rosenfeld/Morville/Arango (the "polar bear book") four-systems model — organization, labeling, navigation, search — with exact-vs-ambiguous schemes, depth/breadth + faceted classification, per-device navigation patterns, wayfinding mechanics, URLs-as-IA, and the research methods (card sort, tree test, first-click) that prove findability. A strict superset of Owl’s IA skill.

When NOT to use

• Visual nav-bar styling only → a component/design-system concern
• Search interaction details → pair with search-ux