Chapter B. Creating a Navigation Framework

One of the challenges of designing for the Web is that customers can come to a site in many different ways. They may not enter at your homepage, and their goals and tasks often vary widely. One of the keys to a satisfying customer experience is a Web site’s ability to support these differences. This pattern group will help you maximize your site’s flexibility to accommodate customers’ different navigation, browsing, and search habits.

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MULTIPLE WAYS TO NAVIGATE

B2

BROWSABLE CONTENT

B3

HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION

B4

TASK-BASED ORGANIZATION

B5

ALPHABETICAL ORGANIZATION

B6

CHRONOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

B7

POPULARITY-BASED ORGANIZATION

B8

CATEGORY PAGES

B9

SITE ACCESSIBILITY

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