Posts Tagged ‘navigation’
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Can User Experience Be Beautiful? An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites
- March 26th, 2012
- 32 Comments
When users land on your website, they typically read the content available. Then, the next thing that they will do is to try and familiarize themselves with your website. Most of the time this involves looking for navigation. In this article, I’ll be analyzing the navigation elements of a particular category ...
Read more...What Web Designers Can Learn From Video Games
- July 27th, 2011
- 68 Comments
Games are becoming more Web-like, and the Web is becoming more game-like. If you need proof of this, you have only to look at Yahoo Answers. Random questions are posed, the top answer is chosen, and credibility points are given to the winner. It’s a ranking system that accumulates and ...
Read more...Planning And Implementing Website Navigation
- June 6th, 2011
- 27 Comments
The thing that makes navigation difficult to work with in Web design is that it can be so versatile. Navigation can be simple or complex: a few main pages or a multi-level architecture; one set of content for logged-in users and another for logged-out users; and so on. Because navigation ...
Read more...Optimizing Error Pages: Creating Opportunities Out Of Mistakes
- May 18th, 2011
- 52 Comments
In this article I’ll be reviewing a few techniques that will help Web designers and UI professionals to improve their error pages in order to engage visitors and improve overall website experience. As C. S. Lewis once said, “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement”. Web designers should ...
Read more...Showcase of Creative Navigation Menus: Good and Bad Examples
- April 19th, 2011
- 60 Comments
Good navigation is the main cornerstone of an effective website. In practice, however, it’s often a tough challenge to come up with a meaningful, unambiguous way to organize, arrange, and display content to users; and it’s often not much easier to find a visually interesting solution either. The wide adaption ...
Read more...Showcase of Interesting Navigation Designs
- September 7th, 2010
- 81 Comments
Everyone is always looking for interesting and effective ways to organize their website and allow users to move about and find things. But there’s a fine line between unexpected and unusable. Three points to consider in any navigation scheme are consistency, user expectations and contextual clues. If page is long and ...
Read more...Showcase Of Beautiful Vertical Navigation Designs
- April 19th, 2010
- 75 Comments
Go to any website and you’re guaranteed to find one thing: a navigation menu. Navigation menus enable visitors to move from page to page; without them, we would have no way to conveniently explore websites. Perhaps this is why designers, information architects, usability researchers and user experience specialists invest so ...
Read more...The Case Against Vertical Navigation
- January 11th, 2010
- 158 Comments
In a recent article about unusable and superficial beer and alcohol websites, I made the claim that using left-hand vertical navigation is an out-of-date method in modern web design. In the comments, a few people wondered why I said this. I was surprised that it got any attention at all, ...
Read more...Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends
- January 4th, 2010
- 94 Comments
The navigation menu is perhaps a website’s single most important component. Navigation gives you a window onto the website designer’s creative ability to produce a functional yet visually impressive element that’s fundamental to most websites. Because of their value to websites, navigation menus are customarily placed in the most visible ...
Read more...Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns And Best Practices
- September 7th, 2009
- 63 Comments
The horizontal navigation menu has become a mainstay in Web design. It is safe to say that nowadays most websites use some form of horizontal navigation to facilitate content browsing. The dominance of horizontal navigation over vertical (i.e. down a sidebar) is obviously due to the design and content limitations ...
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