Agree with observations re: Nix on the redundancy between top & sidebar nav links
Plus on the consistency of global/topbar menu Plus on Brian's suggestion of MegaMenus. Don't know what you mean by your response - but you might want to take the technique a little further in solving your larger challenge. 2 critical comments on current UI: Current design does NOT echo your location in the active "silo" (by highlighting the global menu selection, for instance, or placing a breadcrumb-like title on the drilldown pages). That environmental contextual info is important in terms of helping the user feel comfortable in navigating a huge site. IMHO Large amounts of highly saturated red make me dizzy. Esp. when identifying links. I'm sure that some stakeholders are convinced that it's part of the company brand, but it's perceptually overwhelming. As a partial solution: Red dots, arrows or icons might identify "clickable" items on a large list without the eye-crossing intense color blur of huge areas of undifferentiated red text. And, yes, tag clouds might help the search task - esp. if you can identify popular keyword themes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41403 ________________________________________________________________ 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
