John Allsopp wrote:
...Has anyone done any user testing on drop downs? Tania
maybe?
In
response
now John has dobbed me in ;-)
USER PREFERENCES
My favourite quote from a usability test session 2 weeks ago
"Drop
down lists obstruct what I want to do [re:
Navigation links] Like
On 4 Aug 2005, at 7:39 PM, Tania Lang wrote:
1) with regular repeat users that want to access deep content quickly
and know where it is e.g. Portals, Intranets, Extranets.
Thanks for the post Tania, very informative and I share many of your
views, I'm especially in favour of the indexes
On 4 Aug 2005, at 9:56 PM, Frederic Fery wrote:
the reference is from 2003, is it likely that people behaviour would
have changed since? (ie people more used to fly out?)
No. Generally speaking usability is a pretty stable field, it's only
the coding techniques that change.
kind regards
Terrence Wood wrote:
Surely, aren't browser bookmarks the mechanism to provide regular
users access to deep content, rather than burden occasional users
with a sitemap on every page?
Interesting. I rarely bookmark an internal page. Often there are many
internal pages of a large site (and
That's not quite true ;)
As people become more accustomed to websites and web application conventions,
their experience with these increases. Intuitiveness is dependent on
experience, so
the ease of use/intuitiveness also changes. I wouldn't say that something from
2003 is
out of date, but
Terrence Wood wrote:
Surely, aren't browser bookmarks
the mechanism to provide regular users access to deep content, rather
than burden occasional users with a sitemap on every page? (Or better
yet make a sitemap page :)
Tania - not quite sure I
understand what you mean by sitemap on
On 4 Aug 2005, at 11:01 PM, Donna Maurer wrote:
That's not quite true ;)
I did say generally speaking ;-)
As people become more accustomed to websites and web application
conventions,
their experience with these increases. Intuitiveness is dependent on
experience, so
the ease of
On 5 Aug 2005, at 12:16 AM, Tania Lang wrote:
Terrence Wood wrote:
Surely, aren't browser bookmarks the mechanism to access to deep
content, rather than burden occasional users with a sitemap on every
page?
Tania - not quite sure I understand what you mean by sitemap on every
page.
I meant
