| Links: A flying menu attack can wound your navigation
Right now, too many Web travellers have to pull over to the side of the road
to find the destination they want. And the Web equivalent of the roadside
information bay is the fly-out menu. In all its forms, it is used too often. [Lighthouse 25/7/2000]
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of depth and breadth of web site structure on the user response time. The variables evaluated were five different web page linking strategies with varying depth and breadth. The results indicated that response time increased as the depth of the web site structure increased. This shows that, for a database with a large amount of scatted information like the internet, the links to the various parts of the database should be collected thoughtfully, arranged and presented simultaneously to prevent back and forth searching, since the latter is more complex and results in more errors.
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Ever been lost on the Web? It happened to me in the first week after I plugged in to my ISP, and I didn't like it. I clicked in from Alta Vista to a page that referred to other pages in the same site, but didn't tell you how to reach them. I clicked on a link, found myself in an obscure German Web site, clicked the back button, tried again ... and eventually gave up and typed in a new Web site location. The Web gives you nothing if not easy alternatives.
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The role of an information architect often isn’t fully understood, even within software and web development organizations. At one company I was sometimes introduced to teams as "our navigation guy." I’m actually okay with "navigation guy" as an informal working title, provided it comes with the understanding that navigation isn't something that can just be slapped onto a system, but rather one aspect of a broader user-centered design approach. [Kevin Knabe, 04/2001]
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There are three important aspects to Web navigation. The first is Web site structure: the way we build our pages can simplify or complicate our site navigation. What follows are techniques for keeping Web sites clean and focused. The second aspect of Web navigation is navigating within the site, from one page to another or from within a page. The techniques described here are based on research that watched people find information. The third aspect of Web navigation is the study of using links and information within the site. Skipping over the details of links and how to use them, will make it harder for visitors to find information on our sites. But rigorously applying the principles of good information design will make information on our site easy to find and easy to understand.
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The training of diagnostic problem solving capabilities is the aim of many case based training systems, e.g. for medical students. They follow the approach of problem based learning. This faces the students with a problem exceeding their capabilities and thus induces an information need. This paper examines different ways of accomplishing this need by generating hypermedia documents and enabling intelligent access to static documents.
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Aan de hand van een aantal praktijkvoorbeelden wordt uitgelegd hoe je een bezoeker een duidelijke navigatiestructuur kunt presenteren. Het artikel geeft goed aan wat voor verschillende soorten menu's er in een site kunnen worden ondergebracht. [Internet.com 04/02/2001]
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This paper discusses several common navigational problems and techniques for avoiding them in designing Web applications. Although the focus is on applications rather than on purely informational sites, you can use these guidelines for designing anything on the Web.
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Your navigation system is the backbone of your information structure. It's also the only view of your site structure that the user will ever see. While it's said that navigation should be defined by your information structure, it's also a great idea to use the navigation design to validate the information structure. Navigation highlights the shape of your site: deep and narrow, wide and shallow, very structured to very unstructured. [Webreview 27/04/2001]
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When I go to a Web site looking for a specific review or particular product, I don't have to waste my time. If the item isn't easy to locate, I can shop elsewhere in seconds. Why would I tackle the process of buying a compact disc at Buy.com when I could visit Amazon.com just as easily? The truth is, I wouldn't, and neither would any consumer. While Buy.com may offer the item for a cheaper price, Amazon.com may make it easier for me to locate the item and purchase it. And that is the ultimate goal.
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My goal with this site is to make electronically delivered documents far easier and more practical and faster to work with, by expanding beyond the "help topics" design paradigm. This site covers information structuring; rapid navigation; and designing Help, Web pages, and documents.
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Een verticale navigatie portal. Naast een overzicht van usability en informatie architectuur artikelen over navigatie- design en implementatie vind je hier ook een aardige collectie scipts die je kunt gebruiken voor je eigen website.
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If everyone navigated through content in the same way, then the navigation designer's job would be a lot easier. Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Studies have shown that readers navigate through Web sites based on their own individual preferences. Thus, to accommodate a variety of readers' navigation preferences, a range of navigation types should be offered. [Clickz 19/04/2001]
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Much is known about depth and breadth tradeoff issues in graphical user interface menu design. We describe an experiment to see if large breadth and decreased depth is preferable, both subjectively and via performance data, while attempting to design for optimal scent throughout different structures of a website. A study is reported which modified previous procedures for investigating depth/breadth tradeoffs in content design for the web. Results showed that, while increased depth did harm search performance on the web, a medium condition of depth and breadth outperformed the broadest, shallow web structure overall.
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The site is an outgrowth of my master's thesis, completed in December 2002, which examined de-facto design standards among 75 leading e-commerce sites.
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How do you design and engineer an intranet site for maximum navigability? Three webmasters share their ideas about getting there from here.
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This page deals with how to design a website to optimise the user's experience and benefits from it. Especially oriented towards the "Information Architecture", i.e. designing the organization and navigation systems that help users find information, this topic is a meld of concepts from traditional architecture, library science, user interface design, and usability studies.
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Maar welke navigatiemodellen werken dan wél? Wanneer kiest u voor een bepaalde structuur en hoe zet u die om in een feilloos gehyperlinkt navigatiesysteem? Kortom, hoe maakt u uw site echt bruikbaar? [ZDNet.nl 04/10/2001]
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Every site should be this effective, whether it offers help for personal problems or half-price airfare. Every site should immediately engage its intended audience with compelling content that invites exploration. A Web designer's first job is to find the heart of the matter: the concept. His or her second job is to ensure that readers understand it too. That is the overall purpose of architecture and navigation. Hoofdstuk 3 van het boek van Jeffrey Zeldman, Taking your talent to the web. [Webreference 05/04/2001]
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Primary navigation bars provide shortcuts to main sections on a website and is displayed on most or all pages. I argue that primary navigation bars should be removed completely for three reasons: Navbar links are rarely needed, they are often hard to interpret for users, and
they take up valuable space in page top/left side on all pages.
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