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| title | aliases | tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reading-and-navigating | reading, navigating |
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Reading and navigating
Information scent
- how to represent things so people can find what they want
- do they realize their options
- can they figue out how to get what they want How to find Poor scent
- flailing (loss of orientation, reported or observed)
- low confidence (in what link with will do or where it will go) (measured before and after using a web link)
- back button (count usage of back button)
Low scent navigation
- unfamiliar terms
- suprising categories
- short links
- hidden navigation
- icons provide little information
- generic icons rarely help
- they help when
- they facilitate repeat recognition
- when you know what something looks like but not what its called
- good redundant coding can help
improving scent
- multiword links
- specific recognisable terms
- trigger words not "clever" terms
- help accessibility
- speaking block navigation
- subheadings
- explanations
- design for glanceability
