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
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Most
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NO... Confused
• Sense of scale
trat ed of direction
• Sense
s • Sense of location

5. Most difficult
NO... Conf used
Dis of scale
Sense
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Sense of direction
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Sense of location
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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?