I worked on a major redesign of Yahoo Sports a couple years ago which included a detailed footer design:
http://sports.yahoo.com/ We did quite a bit of user testing on a new "tabbed breadcrumb" style of top navigation for the site -- that nav is now gone, but you can read about it here, R.I.P. http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=211 There was a lot of concern that users would not understand this new style of navigation, and so we decided to offer links to important pages within the footer as a backup plan. I was skeptical, but after observing users actually using the footer links in testing, I realized that detailed footers act as a last-ditch effort to give users what they were looking for, had they scrolled down the entire page looking for a particular link and not finding it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41412 ________________________________________________________________ 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
