navigation-labeling

name	navigation-labeling
description	Design navigation labels and information scent from user goals, object hierarchy, task frequency, terminology evidence, and cross-surface consistency.

Navigation Labeling

Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.

Procedure

1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. Establish the evidence baseline using information architecture, search/support terms, research, page/object inventory, and responsive constraints. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Map destinations to user intents, test candidate labels against content/actions, avoid overlapping categories, validate at different viewport depths, and record terminology rules.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.

Quality gate

Users can distinguish destinations before clicking and labels remain accurate as content grows.