Hi all - I've started to notice a trend on websites that I'm being asked to consider for my company's as well: using tabs within a page's content to afford page real estate to a broad collection of, say, products & services. This type of design would occur primarily on a 'landing page' (a segment's entry page).
For example, we have many product lines/services/versions within one of our primary business units; for these, we would like to promote as many as possible on this segment entry page. Here are some sites that reflect what I'm talking about: - http://www.symantec.com/norton/index.jsp - http://www.ibm.com/us/en/ - http://www.ea.com/genre/action-games - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/index.html The first link, Norton, is the best representation I dug up this morning; look for "Popular Products," "Latest Products," "Macintosh," "Norton Services," and "All Products." I'm not sure this gels with what Nielsen so often states is the 'right way' to use tabs. Though I'm not someone who lives and dies by these things, it does have me thinking in this case. My gut feels like this is just a way of cramming a lot of information in and maybe a better solution to the content needs to be addressed. My brain thinks, this seems logical enough, and it does allow us to meet the client's (marketing team) needs. So, what do you all think? Is this becoming a standard approach that does in fact provide a good UI for all parties? Thanks, in advance, Jennifer ________________________________________________________________ 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
