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Interface Design
1. Interface Design
“Navigation isn’t just a feature of a web site, it is the web site, in
the same way that the building, the shelves, and the cash registers
are Sears. Without it, there’s no there there.” ~Steve Krug
2. Navigation and Wayfinding
Wayfinding has four core components:
1. Orientation: Where am I am right now?
2. Route decisions: Can I find the way to where I want to go?
3. Mental mapping: Are my experiences consistent and
understandable enough to know where I’ve been and to predict
where I should go next?
4. Closure: Can I recognize that I have arrived in the right place?
4. Paths: Leading the Way
Two examples of breadcrumb trails in site headers.
5. Districts and edges: The paradox of
consistency
In large sites users should be able to readily see when they have passed important regional boundaries. If
all the pages look identical, it’s hard to tell where you are within a large site.
6. Nodes: The local coffee shop or Times
Square?
As pages get more
complex, you risk
overwhelming the user
with the “Times Square
effect” of too many
competing visual stimuli.
7. Landmarks: “You are here”
• Orientation cues are particularly important in the web interface,
since users often arrive at a page without having followed a
deliberate and repeatable path.
8. Principles for wayfinding in web sites
• Paths: Create consistent, well-marked navigation
paths
• Regions: Create a unique but related identity for
each site region
• Nodes: Don’t confuse the user with too many
choices on home and major menu pages
• Landmarks: Use consistent landmarks in site
navigation and graphics to keep the user oriented
9. Browse vs Search
User interface research shows that about half of web users prefer to
browse through menu lists of links to find information, and the
other half will go straight to the search box to enter keywords for
search.
10. Orientation
Multiple and complementary “you are here” markers help users stay oriented in complex sites.
12. Clear Navigation Aids
Headers are essential for both site identity and consistent navigation. www.digital-web.com
13. No dead-end pages
Make sure all pages in your
site have at minimum a link
back to the home page or,
better yet, a home page link
along with links to other
main sections of the site. In
addition to user interface
considerations, these links
are crucial for search engine
visibility.
14. Direct Access
• Users want to get information in the fewest possible steps.
• This means that you must design an efficient hierarchy of
information to minimize steps through menu pages.
• Studies have shown that users prefer menus that present at least
five to seven links and that they prefer a few pages of carefully
organized choices over many layers of oversimplified menu pages.
• Design your site hierarchy so that real content is just a click or
two away from the main menu pages of your site.
15. Simplicity and Consistency
Your interface metaphors should be simple,
familiar, and logical—if you need a metaphor for
collections of information, choose a familiar
genre, such as file folders.
16.
17. Design Integrity and Stability
• To convince your users that what you have to offer is accurate and
reliable, you will need to design your web site as carefully as you
would any other type of corporate communication, using the same
high editorial and design standards.
• A site that looks sloppily built, with poor visual design and low
editorial standards, will not inspire confidence.
18. Feedback and Dialog
• Your web design should offer constant visual and functional
confirmation of the user’s whereabouts and options, via graphic
design, navigation links, and uniformly placed hypertext links.
• Feedback also means being prepared to respond to your users’
inquiries and comments.
• Well-designed web sites provide direct links to the web site editor
or webmaster responsible for running the site.
19. Bandwidth and Interaction
• Users will not tolerate long delays.
• Web page designs that are not well “tuned” to the network access
speed of typical users will only frustrate them.
• Beware of potentially slow dynamic content components in your
site, such as RSS feeds, text from content management systems,
or other data sources that can slow the loading of web pages.
20. Interface Design Conventions
Most text-oriented
informational web sites are
converging on a relatively
consistent layout of header,
footer, local navigation, and
content elements that
together make a useful,
familiar starting point for
web interface designs.
Users of web documents don’t just look at information, they interact with it in novel ways that have no precedents in paper document design; therefore, web designers must be versed in the art and science of interface design.
The graphic user interface (gui) of a computer system comprises the interaction metaphors, images, and concepts used to convey function and meaning on the computer screen.
It also includes the detailed visual characteristics of every component of the graphic interface and the functional sequence of interactions over time that produce the characteristic look and feel of web pages.
In his book The Image of the City (1960), Kevin Lynch coined the term “wayfinding” to describe his concept of environmental legibility—that is, the elements of the built environment that allow us to navigate successfully through complex spaces like cities and towns.
In interviews conducted in various cities, Lynch had local residents draw maps of their cities from memory. The mental maps that residents create are crucial to wayfinding in their environment. An individual’s map of the local environment is unique, but Lynch found that most people’s maps were populated by five types of elements:
Paths: Familiar streets, walkways, subway routes, bus lines
Edges: The physical barriers of walls, fences, rivers, or shorelines
Districts: Places with a distinct identity, such as, in New York, Chinatown, Wall Street, and Greenwich Village
Nodes: Major intersection or meeting places, such as the clock in New York’s Grand Central Terminal
Landmarks: Tall, visible structures that allow you to orient over long distances
In web sites paths are the consistent, predictable navigational links that appear the same way throughout the web site.
Paths can also be explicit site navigation elements such as breadcrumb trails that show you where you are in relation to the overall site
Consistency is the golden rule of interface design and wayfinding, but there is a paradox at the heart of consistency: if everything looks the same, there are no edges. How can you tell where you are or when you have moved from one space to another?
A well-designed site navigation system is built on a consistent page grid, terminology, and navigation links, but it also incorporates the visual flexibility to create identifiable regions and edges within the larger space.
In Western societies we equate freedom with a range of choices
Psychologist Barry Schwartz points out in his book The Paradox of Choice, an overwhelming range of choices causes stress, slows our decision-making, makes us generally less satisfied (did I make the right choice from my eighty-nine options?), and makes us more likely to walk away from making any choice at all.
“Give the user choices” is a constant mantra in user interface design, but too many choices delivered simultaneously leave most users overwhelmed and likely to abandon the problem altogether
Both the browse and search aspects of navigation must support the user’s sense of location and orientation to the major landmarks of a site. Core page components and interface elements are relevant to both browsing and searching
Readers need a sense of context of their place within an organization of information.
In paper documents this sense of where you are is a mixture of graphic and editorial organizational cues supplied by the graphic design of the book, the organization of the text, and the physical sensation of the book as an object.
Electronic documents provide none of the physical cues we take for granted in assessing information.
When we see a web hypertext link on a page we have few clues to where we will be led, how much information is at the other end of the link, and exactly how the linked information relates to the current page.
Users should always be able to return easily to your home page and to other major navigation points in the site. These basic links should be present and in consistent locations on every page. Headers provide basic navigation links and create an identity that tells users they are within the site domain.
eb pages often appear with no preamble: users can make or follow links directly to subsection pages buried deep in the hierarchy of web sites. They may never see your home page or other introductory site information. If your subsection pages do not contain links to the home page or to local menu pages, the user will be locked out from the rest of the web site.
The best information designs are never noticed. Once you know where the standard links are on the page header graphics, the interface becomes almost invisible. Navigation is easy and never competes with content for your attention
For maximum functionality and legibility, your page and site design should be built on a consistent pattern of modular units that all share the same basic layout grids, graphic themes, editorial conventions, and organization hierarchies. The goal is to be consistent and predictable; your users should feel comfortable exploring your site and confident that they can find what they need.