February 28, 2004
Victor on a navigation design method
Victor synthesized a heap of naviation research [some here and have a look elsewhere on his blog] into a method for incorporating navigation research into an overall design method. It's an SRO crowd in the room.
He made several references to the excellent book The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience.
Posted by michael.lee at February 28, 2004 08:06 PMSome notes from the firs part of Victor's preso:
- Victor said that his speaker notes will be in the final version of the preso on the conference website
- The genesis of this talk was last year's Wayfinding and Navigation panel with Mark Bernstein, Susan Campbell and Andrew Dillion.
- On the graphic with the list of numbers, dishes, and prices, Victor asks us if we know where we are: a Chinese restauant menu, duh! It is the information's native form that so aids our recognition.
- The web-ified version of the menu is usable but is not sophisticated because it uses none of the traditional menu's form.
- Our job is to communicate meaning
- Information drives recognition: a menu with just poor content and no visual design, and a menu with no real content, just the layout. People recognize the form-only representation twice as fast.
Posted by: Brett Lider at February 29, 2004 08:42 AM