Good Morning All, I've trimmed a lot of this thread because it would seem like an episode of "Lost" with all of those flashbacks but are they really or are they just a crazy quilt of reruns made to look like flashbacks.
I love Jared's comment on trust and design as it encapsulates for me the experience that I have with any website. Go to an ugly one and I am making my way as if on broken glass. The fluid and beautiful ones are just that, fluid and, even if I do not find what I want, I spend more time there trying to do so. Here's another utility for sitemaps and that is for the search engines. As we move closer to the Semantic Web that we've all dreamed of and do not recognize now that it is finally arriving, sitemaps can be a useful tool in aggregating content by context/concept instead of location. Location-based sitemaps are bears because they are soon out-of-date if you do not post the new content simultaneously. I think this is why folks do not trust them. However, a context-based sitemap is not held to that constraint. Yes, new content should be put into its proper "category" but the immediacy is not such a factor. Here is one that I designed for the Windows Vista site http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/site-index.aspx with contextually shared grouping to help the customers quickly (I hope) find the area that they want and then, thanks to highly scented links (but not in that too much cologne sense), the content that they need. marianne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jared Spool Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:27 AM To: Paul Eisen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Site Map - How important is it as a link? On Oct 2, 2008, at 7:42 AM, Paul Eisen wrote: > Jared said, > When we measure trust and satisfaction in performance-based experiments, we find these two attributes are highly correlated to task completion -- the more the user completes their task, the more they > > say they trust the designer/design owners and the more satisfied they are. This is different than when we do opinion-based evaluations, where trust and satisfaction come from other attributes. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
