User-centered thinking (designing structures that match how people look for information)
Clear communication and stakeholder management (aligning many teams to one structure)
Systems thinking (seeing how content, navigation, search, and data fit together)
Facilitation and decision-making (workshops, trade-offs, documenting rationale)
Information architecture methods (site maps, user flows, taxonomy and labeling systems)
Taxonomy and metadata design (categories, tags, rules for consistent classification)
Search and findability optimization (filters, facets, query understanding, search analytics)
Content modeling and structured content concepts (defining content types and relationships)
Research literacy (card sorting, tree testing, usability findings synthesis)
Tools for mapping and documentation (diagramming, prototyping, content inventory tools)