- 27 Mar, 2021
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navigation stress test
In Lecture 2, I make the suggestion that you begin your navigation design by developing content page navigation first and then your full site/app navigation. Since this isn’t the typical top-down approach, meaning you design your home page first and then figure out your assorted content pages based on your home page navigation, you may find this challenging. Nevertheless, developing content page navigation can help you to understand how different pages/screens connect to the broader site/app content.
For the forum this week I’m asking you to examine the potentials of content page design by performing a Navigation Stress Test.
http://instone.org/navstress
To do this, find a site or application and,
1. Ignore the home page and jump directly into the middle of the site.
2. For each random page, can you figure out where you are in relation to the rest of the site? What major section are you in? What is the parent page?
3. Can you tell where the page will lead you next? Are the links descriptive enough to give you a clue as to what each is about? Are the links different enough to help you choose one over another, depending on what you want to do?
In your reflection talk about the limitations and advantages of the navigation. Could you understand the connections between the page content to the overall content of the site/app? You should post your reflections to this week’s forum by Thursday, March 25. You should also look at some of the sites others have posted and say whether you agree or disagree with their stress test results. Comments are due before the start of the next session.