I was recently planning a major overhaul of our company's website, and I kept hitting a wall. Every discussion about new pages or features immediately jumped to visuals or content, but the underlying structure felt messy and reactive. I knew we had a UX problem—users couldn't find key information—but I didn't have the vocabulary or framework to fix it properly.

If you're in the planning stages of a redesign or building a new site from scratch, I can't recommend this read enough. It turns a boring logistical task into the core of your user experience strategy. Here’s the link that helped me so much: site map UX design. It honestly saved our project from becoming a tangled mess.