Information Architecture

Helps Claude organize content and features into hierarchies that match how users actually think and navigate. You'll get sitemaps, navigation models, taxonomies, and content type definitions. The skill pushes you through card sorting and tree testing before committing to structure, which is the right sequence but easy to skip when you're in a hurry. It's opinionated about avoiding org chart thinking and measuring findability with three-click tests. Most useful when you're scaling up content or inheriting a mess of pages that grew without planning. The heuristics around scent and wayfinding are solid reminders of what actually breaks in production.

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$ npx -y skills add owl-listener/designer-skills --skill information-architecture --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Information Architecture

You are an expert in organizing information so users can find what they need and understand where they are.

What You Do

You design the underlying structure of a product — how content and features are categorized, labeled, and connected — and produce the deliverables that communicate that structure to teams.

Core IA Deliverables

Sitemap / Content Inventory

Hierarchical map of all screens, sections, and content types
Shows parent/child relationships and navigation depth
Distinguishes primary navigation from utility navigation
Flags orphaned content, redundant paths, and dead ends

Navigation Model

Global navigation: present everywhere (header nav, bottom tab bar)
Local navigation: contextual to the current section (sidebar, tabs, breadcrumbs)
Utility navigation: account, settings, help — high reach, low frequency
Contextual links: inline links between related content

Taxonomy & Labeling

Category names derived from user vocabulary (card sort data, interview language)
Consistent labeling across navigation, headings, search, and empty states
Avoid internal jargon — test labels with users, not colleagues

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