CCT260H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Web Design
10 Apr 2018
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Eight principles of infomration architecture dan brown. Adding design to web design: other than improving aesthetics, proper design is crucial for increasing a website"s usability. User"s shouldn"t ask themselves questions about your site while browsing it. What makes user"s think: anything that causes one to stop and think. Try to eliminate question marks in the user"s head: obvious vs requires thought, obviously clickable vs requires thought. Information architecture: what is it: organizing, structure. Navigation types: structural: 2 branches (used to connect pages based on the site"s hierarchy) Global: consists of the website"s top-level pages e. g. 3 types: inverted l, horizontal, embedded vertical, associative: 3 branches (used Can lead to areas of the site with related content. Quick links: used for linking to important content not generally present in the global navigation. However, the link is embedded in another site. It is giving you alternative information but it is not structural. Footer: it generally contains links to more website information.
