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Navigation is one of the most difficult and important aspects of web design. It allows users to understand where they are within a site, where they have been, and where they can go next. However, without proper navigation cues, users can easily become disoriented, confused, and frustrated. Effective navigation provides visual and textual cues about the current page title, site section, and breadcrumb trails to indicate location and allow movement between pages. Alternative navigation methods like tag clouds that emerge organically from user tagging may also be considered to complement a traditional taxonomy-based top-down site structure.
navigation
- 1. NAVIGATION
- 2. NAVIGATION Most difficult Most important Make / Break
- 3. Most difficult NO... • Sense of scale • Sense of direction • Sense of location
- 4. Dis orie difficult Most nte d NO... Confused • Sense of scale trat ed of direction • Sense s • Sense of location
- 5. Most difficult NO... Conf used Dis of scale Sense • orie nte Sense of direction • d at ed Sense of location • tr F ru s
- 6. NAVIGATION Where am I? Where have I been? Where can I go?
- 7. NAVIGATION Where am I? Site What... Page Section Where have I been? Where can I go?
- 8. NAVIGATION Where am I? Site What... Page Section Where have I been? Where can I go?
- 9. NAVIGATION HOW Where am I? ? Site What... Page Section Where have I been? Where can I go?
- 10. Navigation - HOW? Site ID on all pages Link name = Page title Page title Indicate site section on page on browser tab: 1. favicon + Site name Breadcrumb trail: Home > Cookies > Chocolate 2. favicon + Site name + Page title 3. favicon + Page title
- 11. Also consider... (not discussed in class) Navbar vs. Tag cloud Top-down organization Bottom-up organization (taxonomy) (folksonomy) Pre-determined Categories emerge categories (card- organically from sorting; designer; info repeated tag use architecture is planned ahead) Are tag clouds the future of Web 2.0 navigation? navigation? Which one has better usability? Should you provide alternative ways of organizing and accessing information?