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Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience

Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience
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Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them.

Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, 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. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.

 

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This book IS what is trying to explain. A great web-usability book from the navigation point of view (quite an important one btw). delivered in very well organized and easy to read (may I say 'navigate').A total 'must read' for anyone who wants to make any GUI application more user-friendly, easier to understand, hence more productive and pleasant.

This book was very informative. I received the book just in time for my class.

This is a helpful resource for new and experienced designers, though it is not groundbreaking. It's more of a compendium of approaches. I believe the editing was not very thorough, as I found several typos.

Most examples are presented from an outside point if view; I'd prefer insider explanations (may be hard to get) when taking e.g. There are too many (for my taste) neat but not-so-useful bullet point-type categorizations (e.g. This book provides a great overview of basic navigation concepts (such as "berry picking"), navigation artifacts (menus, tabs, bars, text links etc) and usability research done in this area (often not much, but can't blame the authors for that). about why Amazon.com changed their navigation scheme. "most navigation types fall into three primary categories: structural, associative, utility") and obvious advise such as "when relaunching or enhancing a web site, it's imperative to first determine the problems of the old one". Fortunately this is counterbalanced by a lot of examples (with screen shots). The organization of the book is logical, for the most part (though I do wonder why the well-written sections on "tag clouds" and "faceted browsing" appear in the "Navigation in Special Contexts" chapter). There is some overlap with two other O'Reilly books: "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" and "Designing Interfaces" book, but having read those two books doesn't mean you won't get anything out of this book.

Kalbach has compiled a wealth of information here that spans both the theory and the practice of web navigation. O'Reilly went with a full-color layout, which means that all the websites Kalbach uses for examples accurately reflect his points. Uh, no. It's obviously more than just putting a list of links down the left side of the screen.Contents:Part 1 - Foundations of Web Navigation: Introducing Web Navigation; Understanding Navigation; Mechanisms of Navigation; Types of Navigation; Labeling NavigationPart 2 - A Framework for Navigation Design: Evaluation; Analysis; Architecture; Layout; PresentationPart 3 - Navigation in Special Contexts: Navigation and Search; Navigation and Social Tagging Systems; Navigation and Rich Web ApplicationsReferences; IndexIf you tend to think more like a developer than a designer, then you pretty much think that a list of navigation links are all you need. The ability to navigate a web site can make or break your user's experience. In this case, I felt very good.This really should be on the reading list of anyone who designs websites that go more than one page deep. By the time you've gone through the book, there's little you haven't covered on the topic.I also appreciated the way the book is designed. Classifying the different types in your mind helps to figure out when you might want to consider options like tabbed navigation over breadcrumb trails.

Also, the edges of the pages are color-coded by chapter, so it makes it very easy to find the particular chapter you're looking for. Once that's presented, you have the proper grounding to start looking at particular types. I learned far more than I thought even existed in the book Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience by James Kalbach. Black and white just wouldn't cut it here. Rather than just say "do this, this, and this", he starts off with the foundational theory behind how people think about getting around a web site. The chapter on navigation mechanisms lays out all the different options, such as step-type navigation, paging-type navigation, tree navigation, and more. I always have a better feeling about a design book when the book's design is high quality. Not only will you design better sites, but your users will thank you.

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