Some of the more popular navigation directions in the future

This is not only an era of information explosion, but also an era of service explosion.
All because of the Internet, with the development of Internet technology, the increase in information, services, the user needs to diversify. How to let users get what they want in the quickest way, the design of navigation is very important.
With the continuous increase in bandwidth, Internet technology research and development, I believe that the form of navigation will be more diverse, this diversification will not be the use of complex, but more humane.
Here are some directions I think will be more popular in the future.

Using the navigation mode of traditional software engineering

Google started by searching, but the sword was Microsoft. Microsoft relies on an operating system platform to integrate the computer's software industry, while Google builds a new platform to integrate all of its web services.
As you can see from the image above, Google's navigation and XP navigation are surprisingly similar, the fast start of the lower left corner of XP, and Google navigation in the upper left corner, the same. Google has no difference except that it doesn't use plain text with icons.

Looking further at Google's upper-right corner, I made the assumption that when you clicked my account, instead of refreshing the page, it would be more like a Windows Start menu than a pop-up panel to display the information. You can try to observe the Google users around you, a lot of people with Google's services are advanced google.com, and then click on the top right-hand corner of my account to find the services they want.
If interested students to study the structure of the next igoogle, it is easy to find, just like a web desktop posture, is a bit of Windows desktop feel.

If Google is the integration of network services, look at the information level of navigation, the last time Ucdchina book friends, we simply discussed the changes in Amazon's navigation, Amazon can be said to be the originator of the network product navigation. The white Jay originally introduced Amazon's navigation history until now.

Can you see from the image above that there is a bit of a "Start Menu" shadow? Amazon has a bright orange button on each subpage "shop all departments" You can switch to any other parent or child page on any of the subpages.
In fact, with the innovation of technology, the concept of software and online services will become increasingly blurred and blended. With the impact of Google's online products on traditional software, from Gmail, Google Doc we can see that subversion is only the concept, the user experience basically completely follow the traditional use of software habits. directories, right-click menus, drag, shortcuts, etc. these are the only client products will appear in the noun, now in the browser also began to become popular, users are very easy to get started.

From the user experience point of view, the operating system, software engineering experience decades of exploration, has been relatively mature, not to mention the cultivation of almost all computer users use habits. Network products should be more to learn from, imitation, is the user's greatest respect.

Navigation without navigation-search

Navigation is the root of the classification, when there are 100 of information, we need categories, when there are 10,000 information, with the tag, when there are 100. 00 information, no matter how the classification is difficult to find, so there is a search.
When a website gets more and more information, search will become more and more important. Finally, one day, when the site found that more than 50% of users came to your site The first thing is a search, the search will become no "navigation" navigation.

Social navigation

When a user is very clear what they need, he needs to find navigation, search, if he boarded the Internet, do not know what they want, in the past, many users open QQ to ask friends: What is the fun recently? Now, with so many Chinese versions of Facebook, you don't have to ask.
Chinese network has a unique scenery line, that is QQ users, how many users contact the Internet is from the QQ start? When they do not know what is a browser, they have become the depth of QQ users.
I have encountered such a user, QQ is his first stop on the internet, his own almost no fixed login to a website, more than half of the use of the Web page is through a friend of the link, often can see him from a very deep chat records inside out some URL links to see, read immediately closed.
Facebook's biggest selling point is follow friend's behavior, and Facebook is an upgrade on the needs of its QQ users. Most of the time when we turn on Facebook, the first thing to do is to look at what our friends have done recently, and try not to use the navigation on the top and left side of Facebook.

Of course, many times these navigation patterns will not exist in isolation, the original intention of navigation is to facilitate the user, optimize the experience.