Information Architecture

You're about to wire up routing or build navigation and realize you should probably figure out where everything goes first. This sits between the design brief and actual implementation, mapping out your site structure, navigation patterns, URL conventions, and user flows. It reads your existing routing setup (Next.js app directory, React Router, whatever you have), interviews you about how users will actually move through the thing, then writes a structured IA document. The real win is it forces you to answer the hard questions about navigation depth and content priority before you're three components deep and regretting your choices. Run it after you know what you're building but before you create tasks.