August 2018
Beginner
414 pages
3h 16m
English
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Chapter #18. If Your Content Has a Beginning, Middle, and End, Use Pagination
Continuing from #17, Use "Infinite Scroll" For Feed–Style Content Only a paginated, multi-page list may seem "old school" but it has a few major benefits:
- It's goal-oriented, so the user is trying to find the item they need in a list and pagination feels intuitive, instead of that they are searching through an endless list
- It remembers the user's position and displays the current page to them
- It conveys a beginning, middle and end to the content
- Users can use the scroll bar to navigate the page and they can reach the footer if they need to
If the user sees that there are "9,999 pages", then they can make the choice to use a search, sort, or filter control. They can't make ...