Website user Experience Design: jump between pages

In the website, the user certainly wants to complete the task in one step.

But in fact, it is impossible. After all, the site's target audience is a group of people rather than a person, the operating habits between the target users will inevitably exist a great difference, and the target users of the product expectations are also different, in the site often exist several similar or related functions to meet the different needs of users in different scenarios.

Typically, a user has to take several steps to complete a task in a Web site. And the operation of the implementation of steps, often a number of consecutive pages of the replacement and jump to achieve. The jump between these pages, should be attached to the structure of this site.

Since the existence of the structure of the site, users have to spend a certain amount of cost to learn how to follow the steps to achieve their own goals, sometimes for further tasks or related tasks completed, users have to spend time to understand the structure of the site, Then think about how the operation you need to complete is validated by this structure. In other words, the structure of the site also has educational notices and the role of persuading users: persuading users to spend a certain amount of effort to understand the structure.

When the target user is using the website, they have to pay the price to learn how to complete the task, which is actually a concession to other users. The process of thinking about how to plan a site is actually a process of thinking about how to make a user better off each other and be happy to accept the cost of this concession. The role of the designer should be to weigh the user's operating costs, so that each user's price is as average and less.

A page is always carrying the task required to complete a step or a few steps, each page is loaded with more steps, the page jumps less, on the contrary, each page is loaded with fewer steps, the more you need more page jump to help complete the task. However

1. A page is loaded with more steps, then the information provided on this page is more natural, the user's cognitive and learning pressure will naturally go up, "will not find what to do here."

2. A lot of jumps between the pages, the user to go to the wrong page is the greater the chance, "will often feel that they do not know where to go."

　　The current design of the popular practice:

Jesse James Garrett mentioned that the jump between pages is generally the user experience design 5 levels of the structure layer to do, and the specific interface of the control and text style and layout is the frame layer to consider. That is, you usually determine the number of jumps before determining how each page will better host the steps required to complete the task. Is this the most reasonable thing to do? I think I need to think about it further.

　　How do you get users to do their jobs more smoothly? The following points may be of concern.

1. Reasonable focus of page information. Each page, in addition to the few steps required to carry out a task, often has other steps related or similar to the task. For a page to do something more cleanly, the user's burden may be smaller.
2. Reasonable operation steps are associated. Several steps of the same task carried on a page should be closely and closely related. Put a relatively small step in the previous or next page to operate.
3. Reasonable and timely appearance. The information associated with the step appears immediately when the user's focus is on the step that needs to be completed at the moment. This will not only help users to complete the operation faster, reduce the user's learning burden at the moment, but also can help users reduce the overall understanding of the page when the pressure.
4. Similar tasks similar to the operation. In a Web site, users should have similar experiences when they are doing the same task. This can also effectively help users learn quickly, so that users clear the structure of the site. When users are familiar with the structure of the site, there may be a sense of conquest, the joy of this sense of conquest will increasingly accelerate the user's various effective activities in the site.
5. Reasonable navigation design and website layout. Just like a road sign when driving on the road, reasonable instructions will not allow the user to get lost.
6. The user ultimately completes a task in a process that is always linear. The daily life of the user familiar with books, articles, audio-visual and video are all a linear experience. Although there will be various choices in the process of accomplishing the task, the thought of what to do first, and what to do later, always runs through the user's mind.

Users through the page and the jump between the page to complete the task like its carrying baggage in the jump on the same, since we have to let users carry baggage to go, then help him to pave the way forward, give him clear road guidance, let the user bold self-confidence to go.