Tagged Questions
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Navigation menu with only one drop-down child — intuitive or not?
Here is a website's main navigation:
Having sub-navigation on-click is pretty common and irreplaceable:
But as a user and designer, I have struggled with the case where there is only one child ...
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5answers
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Is it better to offer 2-3 links to access the same page or one single link?
I'm currently working on an events website. On the events landing page, there is a list of upcoming events. Here is how each event is presented:
The banner, title and 'more details' button lead to ...
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2answers
110 views
How do you decide between a topic-based and an audience-based main navigation?
Any hints from past experience?
Any best practices?
Any research on the subject?
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2answers
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Navigation hierarchy: categories next to single items at the top-level
In our new product we have several pages grouped into several categories.
One of those categories is more important than the rest.
Moreover, we have relatively a small number of pages and categories ...
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3answers
166 views
Multiple Navigations - messy or necessary?
I'm looking at UEFA's website and seeing they have 3 navigations menus.
Is there any support for this being a good UX? The organization does alot, and structuring their site this way might make ...
3
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2answers
71 views
Visually distinguish an index versus a single view
I think I'm having a hard time pulling this off because no one has yet done a good job of this.
Think of the home page of most blogs as the index, just a list of the latest blog posts.
When you ...
6
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1answer
171 views
minimalistic top navigation + huge footer = winning combination?
Ive seen a lot of very successful sites of big companies like mailchimp and others with minimalistic top navigations consisting of 3-5 buttons, but big footers where detailed navigation is located.
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11answers
965 views
Website redesign how do you know how to organize the navigation structure?
I know this question is extremely broad but I would like to know the steps a UX'er would take in order to understand what content there is on a site and then how to organize this content in terms of ...
5
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3answers
115 views
Why do we always need to integrate search with structure?
Jakob Nielsen posted in May 2009 an article called “Top 10 Information Architecture Mistakes” where he states that mistake no 2 is not having an integrated search with the structure of the site. I’ve ...
6
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1answer
394 views
Should we use ‘narrow and deep’ or ‘broad and shallow’ navigation pattern on mobile devices?
If we have a large content environment on a mobile device, we need some way to access that content with ease. One could implement a narrow and deep navigation pattern which gives the possibility for ...
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2answers
92 views
Where can I find info about rudimentary navigation / architecture paradigms?
I need something that refers to classic approaches to structure content and the reason to choose them over others.
For example:
Tabs - use tabs when the different sections co exist and can be ...
1
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1answer
246 views
Alternative to 2 tab bars in iPhone app
I am working on an iPhone app. I am in the early stages of designing the structure.
I will be using word department as a node in the information architecture structure of an app.
I encountered a ...
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2answers
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One site, 2 domains
I have a proposal for a site, where for technical reasons the project manager proposed to run the site on two domains.
It's a Moodle learning site, and we have a Moodle supplier hosting the actual ...
2
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1answer
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Why does the Google logo sometimes take you back to search and sometimes take you back to the product?
The title is a little lengthy -- I know -- but please bear with me on this one.
I observed today that some Google sub-sites (namely Google Images, Google Books, Google Shopping) redirect to Google's ...
3
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3answers
133 views
Does navigation menu have to mirror the actual page structure in my site?
Can I put items in a navigation menu list, that don't actually mirror the website pages structure ?
e.g. if the pages in the site follow this structure:
Homepage
|--Products
|--Product 1
...
6
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2answers
645 views
Task-based navigation with menu-items expanding to Mega Menus
First let me apologize for the length of this question, but I want to explain it pretty thoroughly.
Some background/rationale first: As part of the design of a new travel website I've gone with a ...
0
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1answer
162 views
For a site with multiple different user-types should the primary navigation reflect all available options for all users?
I think there is a serious navigation problem on the website I am working on. I have four kinds of users (people working in fashion, interested in fashion, people that buy fashion, and people that are ...
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3answers
263 views
Displaying a large number of tables
We're designing a search feature which returns results from many different tables.
The user searches for something and the application returns all the tables answering the search query. The user ...
1
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2answers
116 views
How to organise navigation items with quasi parent-child relationships
I'm looking for an effective way to organise navigation items where some items are closely related to another in the same list.
This is how they're currently listed:
Home
Users
Teams
Products
Groups
...
8
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3answers
258 views
How can I differentiate Online products vs “Offline” products?
I'm helping re-design a website which has some products that can be purchased online and some which can only be purchased offline in physical stores.
Both the products you can buy and can't buy need ...
3
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2answers
708 views
How to deal with multilevel menus
I trying to design a horisontal menu that sometimes will go three levels down. The thing that drive me crazy is to know if I should show all the levels.
For example:
About us, Products, Contact
...
5
votes
5answers
208 views
Alternative label for “Solutions” tab in main menu?
Analytics and heatmap testing show that users don't really click on the "Solutions" tab in our main menu. My guess is that this is because the "Solutions" label is overused and users are a bit blind ...
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0answers
258 views
Creating an Information Architecture for a e-commerce page [closed]
I wanted to showcase information architecture of a e-commerce web page (not a deep-linked site) to the internal team. So what are the step-wise procedures considered in building an IA?
Also can you ...
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2answers
395 views
Displaying Hierarchical Information in a Mobile App
trying to come up with a good way of presenting a hierarchy of information on a mobile device. Specifically, I wrote this Khan Academy app for Windows Phone:
...
5
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1answer
577 views
Task-based vs topic-based navigation on travel destination-site
I've got a concept of a destination-site (about Paris) covering topics like: Hotels, Restaurants, activities, tripplans, and all other usual suspects. This topic-based navigation is the de facto ...
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2answers
166 views
How do you decide which links should be placed in the primary menu?
How do you decide which links should be placed in the primary menu? Should you only link to the pages and areas that get the most traffic? How should you think?
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3answers
233 views
navigation menu for not an ordinary site content
Most of my past projects are rather simple in terms of navigation. A simple dropdown menu (Superfish, for instace) works with most of them.
Now I have a project that requires content to be separated ...
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12answers
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Do website visitors return to the homepage once they're inside the site?
I have been (unsuccessfully) looking for some research that supports / rejects (or even discusses) the hypothesis that:
Once a user has entered a website a significant percentage of them do not ...
