I completely agree with you guys from a user end but from a marketing and business perspective why would you drive business away from your site? You have a link that goes to a new site, the user clicks on that link and goes to another site, then another, and then another possibly opening another window, then even another and before you know it you are asking the user to use the browsers back button or memory to navigate back you your site.
I am coming at this purely from what I have been asked to do from the business side of things but in the end I guess I have changed the way I browse because of this. I browse in a tab environment and like it. I like having all external sites open in other tabs or windows. To have a blog talking about "the 10 best examples navigation" and all of a sudden I click on the first example and I am not on the website anymore but on the examples website, seems like mismanagement of user experience and I know I am not alone. I know this is a debate and it has been debated for a long time. Just try this, go to this page and read the article and try to compare the examples, while reading the article at the same time: http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/tabbed-navigation-and-what-makes-it-useful/ Now the above example should not be too hard because there are only 4 examples and it is a short blog but you get my point because it is impossible unless you open all the examples up yourself in new windows/tabs. Does nobody agree with me? Am I the only person who likes to compare and contrast examples that are fed to me like this as I read a blog. Am I really that ADD where I need to jump back and forth between what I am doing or does this make sense to anyone else? Brian Durkin # company {nickelodeon:parentsconnect.com;} # company .job {developer:web-monkey;} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46314 ________________________________________________________________ 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
