Information Architecture Maker

Information architecture gives content an understandable home

Information architecture organizes and labels information so people can find what they need. A visual IA diagram makes categories, pages, screens, and their relationships visible before detailed interface design.

Before navigation and page design are fixed

Use it during a new site plan, a content audit, or a knowledge-base reorganization. The structure should reflect audience tasks as well as the content that already exists.

Make the hierarchy useful to its audience

1. Start with user tasks. Internal departments are not always useful navigation categories.
2. Choose clear labels. Prefer terms the audience recognizes over vague labels such as resources.
3. Keep levels consistent. Do not mix a content category and an individual article as equivalent nodes without intent.
4. Distinguish hierarchy from cross-links. A page can have one primary home and several relevant access paths.
5. Test likely routes. Walk through realistic find-this-item tasks to expose confusing groupings.

Turn a content inventory into a visual structure

MyMap arranges the proposed pages and sections into a canvas diagram that you can reorganize by asking. The example is an e-commerce site tree with shop, account, cart, about, and support areas; it is a structure proposal, not a deployed website.