Posts Tagged ‘Navigation’
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New Defaults In Web DesignHow Much Has The Web Really Changed?
- May 6th, 2013
- 54 Comments
Responsive design is about more than just layout; it’s about designing for the Web, which means, mostly, for people with browsers. And that’s just about everything we know about the people who visit our websites: they are probably using a browser. All the rest we just don’t know. Up until not ...
Read more...Navigation PatternsExploration Of Single-Page Websites
- November 5th, 2012
- 47 Comments
We tend to think of navigating a website as clicking from page-to-page via some kind of global navigation that’s always visible. When it comes to a single page, we often think scrolling is the one and only way to move from one end to the next. Sometimes global navigation and ...
Read more...Can User Experience Be Beautiful? An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites
- March 26th, 2012
- 35 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
- 70 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
- 28 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
- 78 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 ...
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