Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76 EAN: 9780596528102 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596528108 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 456 Publication Date: August 15, 2007 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Release Date: June 01, 2007 Sales Rank: 21250 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionThoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: 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 book:
Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design
Paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior
Demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility
Helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design
Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation
Explores 'information scent' and 'information shape'
Explains 'persuasive' architecture and other design concepts
Covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications
Includes an entire chapter on tagging
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience
This book provides a great overview of basic navigation concepts (such as "berry picking"), navigation artifacts (menus, tabs, bars, text links etc) and usability research done in this area (often not much, but can't blame the authors for that). There are too many (for my taste) neat but not-so-useful bullet point-type categorizations (e.g. "most navigation types fall into three primary categories: structural, associative, utility") and obvious advise such as "when relaunching or enhancing a web ... Read More
Rating: - Your users will thank you for reading this...
The ability to navigate a web site can make or break your user's experience. I learned far more than I thought even existed in the book Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience by James Kalbach. It's obviously more than just putting a list of links down the left side of the screen...
Contents:
Part 1 - Foundations of Web Navigation: Introducing Web Navigation; Understanding Navigation; Mechanisms of Navigation; Types of Navigation; Labeling Navigation
Part ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Colorful and Insightful Resource
In today's day and age where the Internet is a part of our everyday life, there has never been a time more appropriate now then to have really good navigation on your or your client's website. As sites grow more advanced and complex, it is vital to the success of your website that users are able to find what they need in a timely fashion without jumping through hoops to get there.
Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experiencehelps you lay the ground work to achieve a great user ... Read More
Rating: - Bad design, light on content.
This book is shockingly below O'Reilly's usual design and quality standards. It's full of pointless little 'design'-elements, such as lines, colored backgrounds and entirely useless colored tabs down the outside of the book. The font's barely legible, and the sub- and sub-sub- and sub-sub-sub- headers are in a light blue and fairly fade into the page background. The pull quotes at the start of each chapter are light grey on light blue, etc.
The content is very breezy, seemingly written by and for ... Read More
Rating: - Great Resource For Web Designers
'Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience' is a great resource for web designers and developers that are looking to create and/or improve web navigation for new or existing sites. Fill with ~400 pages of full color content, this book features a great layout and easiest to use color tabs for navigating this text. If you go solely off of the layout and navigation of this book, you will understand how useful and to the point the content WITHIN the book is.
- Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience
- Your users will thank you for reading this...
- Bad design, light on content.
