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title: "reading-and-navigating"
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aliases: reading, navigating
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tags:
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- info203
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- visual-design
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# Reading and navigating
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Information scent
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- how to represent things so people can find what they want
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- do they realize their options
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- can they figue out how to get what they want
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How to find Poor scent
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- flailing (loss of orientation, reported or observed)
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- low confidence (in what link with will do or where it will go) (measured before and after using a web link)
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- back button (count usage of back button)
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Low scent navigation
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- unfamiliar terms
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- suprising categories
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- short links
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- hidden navigation
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- icons provide little information
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- generic icons rarely help
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- they help when
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- they facilitate repeat recognition
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- when you know what something looks like but not what its called
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- good redundant coding can help
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improving scent
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- multiword links
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- specific recognisable terms
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- trigger words not "clever" terms
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- help accessibility
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- speaking block navigation
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- subheadings
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- explanations
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- design for glanceability
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