# 2 · Structure: what goes where, and how people find their way **Information architecture** is what goes where and what it's called: which pages exist, how they're grouped, and the words on the menus. **Navigation** is how people move around that structure, and how they find their way back. Both are invisible when they work. When they don't, people say "I can't find it" about something that's right there. You know the structure because you built it: you know that "Workspace" holds billing. The person doesn't, and they arrive from a search result or an email link, not from your home page. --- > **In ihumane Pro** (https://ihumane.ai/#pricing): > - N1 · Group and name things the way the person thinks > - N2 · Each label says clearly what's behind it ### N3 · Every page says where you are **Rule:** Every page shows, without scrolling: - **its name**: one heading, matching the menu label (N2) and the browser tab's title; - **its place**: the current item in the navigation is marked, visibly and with `aria-current="page"`; pages more than two levels deep also show a breadcrumb (the trail of parent pages, like "Projects › Website › Members"); - **its owner**, when it belongs to something: "Members of Website", not just "Members"; - **the step**, inside a flow: "Step 2 of 4" or a step list (UI design D3). A person who lands on the page from a search or a shared link, with no history, must be able to tell where they are and go up one level. **Why:** People arrive in the middle more often than at the top. Without signs of where they are, they can't tell whether this is the page they wanted, and can't find it again later. **Agent trap:** the menu highlights items on hover but has no current state. A deep link to `/projects/42/settings/members` shows a page titled "Members" and nothing else: members of what? The browser tab says "React App". **Check:** open a deep page in a fresh, signed-in tab, with no history. Can you tell which product, which section and which item you're in, and how to go up? Run `checks/wayfinding.js`. > **In ihumane Pro** (https://ihumane.ai/#pricing): > - N4 · Back up, and back to where they were > - N5 · The most used things are closest > - N6 · One home for each thing, many ways to reach it > - N7 · Every place people come back to has its own address