In terms of users remembering URL's I guess it depends on the target audience, but certainly some of our research on projects show the more experienced users guessing common pages much as they would the URL of a site. So a surprising number would guess at domain.com/contact to immediately find the companies telephone number for instance.
Nik -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maxim Soloviev Sent: 27 January 2009 00:35 To: Greg Thomas; IXDA list Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] URL Guidelines Greg, I think underscore can cause problems when URL is highlighted. Because of usual text-decoration:underline applied someone might not notice underscores, just a thought. Rules I was initially thinking about: Dashes will replace spaces when creating default URL when one of conditions below met: 1. Page title (and basically URL) contains 3 or more words 2. Page title contains 2 words but it's length is longer than 12 characters. And that's where my question about consistency came from - is it all that important for URL? Does users tend to remember URLs of particular pages at all? I tried to find any studies/researches related to usability of URL but couldnt :-/ -- Maxim Soloviev Director of Product Development www.nakea.net ________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 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
