August 2007
Beginner
416 pages
12h 16m
English
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ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK
There are three larger parts to this book. It begins with a tour of aspects and elements of web navigation, introduces a framework for navigation design, and finally explores some special topics of navigation.
- Part I
Designing Web Navigation begins by introducing two basic areas of navigation design that you should understand before starting a project: human information behavior and web navigation elements. How do we navigate on the Web? How do we find information in general? Understanding these broader concerns can help you arrive at an appropriate solution for your navigation system. Also keep in mind that for any one problem, there may be a large palette of navigation mechanisms and navigation types that solve it. You need to be familiar with the tools of craft. Part I provides an overview of web navigation, navigation behavior, and some of the building blocks needed to create effective systems.
- Part II
Every completed web project has a process because there is an outcome. Something had to have happened to get to the final result. The question is if the process was planned or unplanned, implicit or explicit, organized or chaotic. Part II offers a systematic framework for navigation design. Describing the process in terms of phases helps us focus on individual aspects and learn from the method more easily. In practice, however, the steps you'll take to create navigation probably won't be linear, but instead, you'll move back to previous steps or skip ...
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