I have on three occasions recently done User Experience for companies
where someone eventually turned to me and said "Can we incorporate a
'Find' or 'Search' button for just this page?" In each case, they were
shocked to find out that there's a perfectly good 'find on page'
functionality built into browsers.
I wouldn't rely too heavily on users' knowing about the Find feature
when making page length decisions.
kt
Katie Albers
Founder & Principal Consultant
FirstThought
User Experience Strategy & Project Management
310 356 7550
[email protected]
On Mar 11, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Batyah Rubin wrote:
If you are talking about web, here are some considerations I feel work
in favor of long pages:
1. The browser Find feature CAN find text on the current tab/page,
but CAN'T find it on another tab
2. Using Links at the top of a long page (instead of tabs) can get
the user to the relevant text lower down on the same page very
quickly
3. The text may be long because it is all relevant to a single topic,
if so, the printing of it can be easier in a single page (dividing it
up into tabs may NOT be appropriate)
4. Today it is generally accepted that page lengths are long and are
preferred to additional navigation clicks IF the page length does so
affect the page load time
5. Most users now have mice with scroll wheels, this makes scrolling
quick and efficient
===>>>See http://www.useit.com/alertbox/tabs.html
Best of luck
Batyah Rubin
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