Usability and Web Site Navigation

MMC 4341

Week 4

Home page

Home page: Site ID

Home page: Sections

Home page: “Utilities”

Home page: Tag line

Secondary navigation

Highlight: The page you’re on

Highlight: The page you’re on

The footer: Lots o’ links

Different page design

But primary nav is still clearSite ID

Sections Utilities

Mismatch: Page headings

Krug’s “trunk test”

• What site is this? (Site ID)

• What page am I on? (Page name/heading)

• What are the major sections of this site? (Sections)

• What are my options at this level? (Local or secondary/tertiary navigation links) – Or, where can I go from here?

• How can I search?From Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd edition, by Steve Krug. New Riders, 2006. This text is found on page 85.

Missing: The search box

On a commercial Web site, we would expect to see the search box around here.

Usability and Web Site Navigation

Presentation by Mindy McAdams

University of Florida