- From: Lois Wakeman <lois@lois.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 16:04:59 +0100
- To: "Angela Hilton" <angela.hilton@umist.ac.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Angela, >as a designer I want to create an attractive, intuitive, uncluttered and usable web page< There is some evidence to suggest that dhtml menus (where you effectively have to guess which category you want to expand) are less usable, in general, than those where you can see everything at a glance - scanning is a very valuable user behaviour to support, on the whole. But please note, I am not someone who thinks that a good site should be all static text ;-) Of course, some information architectures are easier to categorise in terms that everyone will recognise, than others. And in practice, I have visited many sites where the categorisation was entirely at the whim of the developer/marketing dept etc. (rather than using a real world model that ordinary people could use without trial and error). Lois Wakeman ------------------------------------------------------ http://lois.co.uk http://siteusability.com http://communicationarts.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------
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