documentation-information-architecture
DesignAudit, organize, and redesign developer documentation information architecture, including content inventory, navigation, landing pages, sequences, hierarchies, webs, breadcrumbs, sidebars, metadata, redirects, migration, platform/tool selection, and maintainable IA decisions. Use when restructuring docs sites, improving findability, planning doc migration, evaluating docs tooling, or organizing large documentation sets.
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Documentation Information Architecture
Use this skill to organize developer documentation so readers can find the right content at the right time. It works at doc-set and site level rather than single-page prose level.
This skill is derived from Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing, especially Chapter 10, "Organizing documentation." It is expanded with paraphrased guidance from Christopher Gales and the Splunk Documentation Team's The Product Is Docs: Writing Technical Documentation in a Product Development Group, especially Chapter 17, "Tools and Content Delivery," plus related audience, learning-objective, maintenance, and SaaS guidance from Chapters 3, 9, 10, and 25. Do not copy book prose into user outputs. Source: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7217-6
Quick Start
- Load
guidelines.mdto choose the smallest useful reference set. - Identify user mental models, common tasks, and existing content inventory.
- Choose or combine sequence, hierarchy, and web structures.
- Use
workflows/evaluate-doc-platform.mdwhen choosing or migrating documentation tooling. - Use
workflows/audit-doc-ia.mdfor full IA audit or redesign. - Preserve redirects, metadata, source decisions, and maintenance rules.
Default Output
When auditing or redesigning IA, return:
- Current-state findings - navigation, gaps, duplication, stale content, and findability issues.
- User model - major audiences, tasks, and entry points.
- Recommended structure - sequence, hierarchy, web, landing pages, and navigation cues.
- Content actions - keep, remove, review, merge, split, move, or create.
- Migration plan - redirects, metadata, owners, and validation.
- Maintenance plan - how IA decisions stay current.
Contents
| Need | Start Here |
|---|---|
| Understand IA patterns | references/core/knowledge.md |
| Apply IA rules | references/core/knowledge.md |
| See IA examples | references/core/knowledge.md |
| Audit or redesign IA | workflows/audit-doc-ia.md |
| Evaluate docs platform/tooling | workflows/evaluate-doc-platform.md |
| Route by task | guidelines.md |
Core Posture
- Organize docs around user mental models and tasks.
- Use landing pages to route quickly, not to create marketing detours.
- Keep navigation cues useful but economical.
- Treat migration and maintenance as part of IA design.
- Choose tools from reader, authoring, maintenance, and migration requirements rather than feature excitement.