Rewrites Happen When You Skip Information Architecture

Published 2025-10-18 by Faraz Rahimi

Pretty screens on a confused map get rebuilt. I start with the nouns and the jobs, not the gradient.

Rewrites Happen When You Skip Information Architecture

Tags: Web Development, IA, Clients, Product, unlisted

What are the objects: items, bins, users, receipts. What jobs happen to them. If that list is wrong, every component is a guess.

I sketch routes as jobs. Lookup. Count. Exception. I do not sketch twenty pages because a competitor has twenty pages.

Navigation is architecture

A navbar is a promise about what the product is. If it is a junk drawer, the rewrite is already booked.

Data model first for ops tools

A beautiful board on a lying schema will be thrown away. I would rather look boring in week one.

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