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| Category: | General - Books | By: | O'Reilly |
| More info: | www.oreilly.com ... | Info-file: | big_front_DesigningW... |
| Author(s): | James Kalbach | Pages: | 394 |
| Year of publication: | 2007 | ||
Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book:- Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design;- Paints a broad picture of web navigation and » Read more... |  |
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Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book:- Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design;- Paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior;- Demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility;- Helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design;- Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation;- Explores 'information scent' and 'information shape';- Explains 'persuasive' architecture and other design concepts;- Covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications;- Includes an entire chapter on tagging;While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.