Usability:
Information Architecture and the User Experience
Web Design: Navigation
- Review architecture, sitemaps
- Navigation strategies & methods:
- consistency
- c-clamp / breadcrumb / top-left orientation
- orphaned pages, user-based naming
- search function
- Publication Design:
- online / print
- goals, constraints / opportunities
navigation: class presentation
Reading
“Designing Web Navigation” good step-by-step introduction to core concepts for designing usable web navigation systems
useit.com: Jakob Neilsen's website includes a biweekly column on web usability, plus numerous links to books and articles on web usability
Web Design & Usability Guidelines a handy checklist produced by the U.S. Government covering all major aspects of designing user-centered websites
“Empire of the Disconnected” Most Web users are easily confused — here's 14 tips for building user-friendly sites
Homework
Analyze and evaluate the online and print versions of a publication, including a close reading of similar or identical content as covered in web and print. Your response should include an assessment of the table of contents (print) and site navigation (web).
In addition, you should note the ease of finding specific content on the web version, how its writing style changes from web to print, and the images or other media used in conjunction with the written content. Which version provided the most efficient means for you to access the specific content you sought? Which version provided the more satisfying user experience? Why?
Keeping in mind the previous sections on architecture and writing for the web as well as our discussion on navigation, suggest potential changes to the publication's web version.
Presenter
Matt Ferranto: mattferranto@spareroom.org
The Center for Publishing
School of Continuing and Professional Studies
New York University
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