website, (100-1)% content is navigation

website, (100-1)% content is navigation

1, Jesse James Garrett in the "User experience elements" book refers to multiple navigation systems: Global navigation, local navigation, auxiliary navigation, internal chain navigation, friendly navigation.
And I think not only that, "search", "Classification", "http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/12334.html" > site map, "content introduction" and so on are just different ways of navigation.

2, the value of the site is "can help users to complete a task and get some kind of experience."
The thing that the website wants to do is to better guide the user to complete the task, and guarantee the user completes the task the process to have the good experience.

In a sense, it can be said that the site is doing the whole thing is to do "navigation", only the final result is "content."

3, so, the website design "100% minus One" is in the design navigation. And the experience of the website and the "process of accomplishing the task" are actually "navigation experience". So in the design we are always thinking "how to make the user better to complete this task", "How to better guide users to complete this operation", "user habits How to do this thing", ...

Page, (100-1)% of the content is navigation

4. Professor John Krade, a psychologist, has summed up seven of human fears, the 5th is "thinking about fear", where people need simple, obvious answers rather than more rich options, and Americans who summed up Whitewater said: "If you complicate the scandal, you can get away with it."
Similarly, I would like to say: If the page is complicated, you can not find your users north.

5, in fact, any page of the site only needs to be accurate to convey to the user "one" information.
In fact, a page can only be transmitted to the user "one" information, the other information is only "guide" meaning.

6, so, on any page of the website, "100% minus One" content is the navigation.

7, the homepage In addition to tell users "this is a sense of what the site" (This is often "invisible" performance, rather than direct content rendering), the other things are doing "guidance."
You can think that the content of homepage 100% is navigation.

Navigation is not as careful as possible.

8, often we design "auxiliary navigation" or "friendly navigation" in principle is this: if the designer found that users browsing a information may need to B operation, then find a way to "let users quickly know how to do B" ".

Of course, this "allows the user to quickly know" is also likely to be "on the page to place a clear position B operation." However, many times it is not a direct choice because there is too much "likely demand".

9, there are research reports that: Oriental in the site's operating habits are more lazy to think, "thinking fear" Yusheng!

In short, the Oriental in the browsing information A, if you need a B operation, they generally think "a page of the location should be obvious place this B operation, otherwise this design is not good."

So, we often see a lot of Web site design against this principle, on the page placed a lot of "auxiliary navigation" or "friendly navigation." As I said above, if you complicate the page, you can get your users out of the north.

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