Principles of Successful Navigation
7th Sep. 2008
Navigation that works should:
- Be easily learned
- Remain consistent
- Provide feedback
- Appear in context
- Support users’ goals and behaviors
- Offer alternatives
- Require an economy of action and time
- Provide clear visual messages
- Use clear and understandable labels
- Be appropriate to the site’s purpose
Bullet points provided by Jennifer Fleming's old but still relevant Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience (1998). I wore that book out reading and rereading on the bus ride to my main gig then.
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