Whether you are designing a classic or modern SharePoint architecture, some design principles remain the same: making sure your layout makes sense to the end users and ensuring they can find relevant content to complete their work. With classic SharePoint architectures, there are concepts of inherited navigation experiences, while modern SharePoint uses hub sites to achieve a similar look and feel across sites.

From a fundamentals perspective, the core concepts focus on organization, labeling, usability, and search. Many of these concepts have no right or wrong answers, as it largely depends on your type of business. A service-oriented organization will have different organizational needs than a product-oriented organization.

In this section, we'll go through some tips and guidelines for maximizing the user navigation experience.