Monday, April 22, 2013

Unit 3 Reading Response


Street signs and breadcrumbs: Designing Navigation

Response

It’s a fact: People won’t use your website if they can’t find their way around it. If you go to a site and you can’t find what you’re looking for or how the site is organized you’re not likely to stay long or even come back. You must create clear, simple and consistent navigation.

Websites that seem so simple and clear are actually pretty complex. If you think about it, trying to organize an entire website with everything you want to showcase in it and allow the users to find those things with only 3-4 clicks is pretty damn hard.

I’ve never thought of a website as a store that you’re trying to navigate through, and how the signs need to be clear and organized. A customer at a store that can’t find what they’re looking for can become pretty aggravated quickly. I know I can be that way, especially at Costco.

I’m glad Krug really enforces this thought process of web design and navigation; this has definitely helped for Project 1- Portfolio website design.

3 Links Related to Material

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30 examples of attractive navigation

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