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Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience
Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them.
Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.
Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.
412 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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July 14, 2010
Geared a little too much for "2006-era navigation" instead of navigation principles for my tastes, but a great book. Combine with any number of design pattern websites available today and you've got a solid resource.
September 7, 2012
One of those nifty books to have at your fingertips. The content reads more like a textbook so it's perfect when used as a reference for quick UX/IA inspiration.
June 30, 2022
Tiene muchas cosas que son vigentes a pesar de que ya está algo viejo el libro. Más que nada lo importante es que los sistemas de navegación siguen siendo utilizados y las maneras de probarlos siguen aplicando, fue un buen refresh de la teorÃa. Lo recomiendo más como referencia en general, voy a regresar a varias de mis notas después
October 30, 2009
Standard book on navigation. Was looking for more advanced insights so a bit disappointed
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