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Designing Navigation
“Navigation systems should be designed with care to complement and reinforce the hierarchy by providing added context and flexibility.”—Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld [1]
Designing an effective navigation system for a digital information space depends primarily on creating well-organized, well-labeled navigation hyperlinks that have strong information scent and, thus, result in good findability, enabling users to correctly identify links that would lead to the specific information they’re seeking. The labels for navigation hyperlinks derive much meaning from their context—the navigation hierarchy itself.
When users are browsing an information space, they quickly scan groupings of navigation hyperlinks for labels that ...
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