user interface design ch7

Question 21 :Which site structure enables users to navigate through site pages by association instead of in a linear fashion?

Web-like Structures

Keeping the "serial position effect" in mind, what is the best way to organize your navigation bars?

You should put the most important navigation options at the beginning and the end of your navigation bars. The "serial position effect" reveals that human attention/retention tend to be highest for things that appear at the beginning and at the end of a series. This means that you should put the most important navigation options at the beginning and at-the-end of your navigation bars and menus. Reserve the middle area for less important options.

Question 17 :Which is not a standard navigation convention?

Your navigation should be a stunning piece of art.

A Web site consists of a set of pages organized into one or more configurations, commonly called structures. Which of the following is not one of the three most commonly used sites?

cyclical

Anytime you are directed to go through a set of pages in a specific sequence you are dealing with what kind of site structure?

sequential

Of all the positional awareness tools you can give your site visitors, which is the clearest and most complete?

A site map

Two powerful tools for identifying the needs and work habits of your site visitors are personas and use cases. A third very popular tool for this purpose is contextual inquiry. What is contextual inquiry?

A user-centered design method in which information is gathered about users by interviewing them at their place of work.

For users to navigate your site quickly and easily, they must have positional awareness of its structure. Positional Awareness can be described as:

An understanding of where the current page is positioned within the site structure.

It is said that URLs can be similar to breadcrumb trails in terms of site structure and navigation. How are they similar?

Both present a trail through the site that leads to the current page.

Which of the following is not a recommended practice when designing from a "mobile-first" perspective?

Have the navigation bar remain across the top of the screen when scrolling. One solution is to design from a "mobile-first" perspective in which the site has to scale up instead of down. However, full-screen desktop and laptop scenarios more often lead the design process, as we have done in these lessons. Have the font-size in a navigation bar reduce in size. Have all the elements of the navigation bar simplify to well-spaced text with just enough white space to separate themselves from the content. Have a navigation bar flip from a horizontal layout to a vertical or gridded layout. Replace image-based navigation with text-based navigation. Have the navigation bar hide itself based on scrolling direction. Have your navigation menu group itself into a hamburger menu.

Most Web sites have a home page that branches off tree-like into a set of main sections, each of which branches off into a set of subsections, and so on, all the way down to the furthest branches/subsections. Which type of site structure does this describe?

Hierarchical

It is suggested that, to make a good directory structure, imagine an inverted tree, with the root at the top, and work your way from the top down to the furthest branches. Using this imagery, where would your home page be stored?

In the root directory at the top of the tree.

There are many different navigation elements you can use for your Web site navigation systems. Which is described as: "The classic text hyperlink embedded within a line of text."?

Inline links

Image maps can be very effective navigation tools, particularly when the navigational information you need to convey is better presented visually than in text. What can be a disadvantage to using image maps?

Large image maps can load slowly.

There are many different navigation elements you can use for your Web site navigation systems. Which is described as: "A set of text or image links laid out horizontally (in a row) or vertically (column)."

Navigation Bars

What is the first step in creating an effective navigation system?

Organize your site content in a logical, usable and consistent manner.

A starting point that many professional designers use to build their navigation system is to divide a site's pages into two categories, primary and secondary. What is the difference between primary and secondary pages?

Primary pages are globally accessible via primary navigation elements from everywhere in the site.

Which is a common navigation design mistake?

Putting navigation bars in unexpected places.

Which type of navigation element is described as "a cloud-like assemblage of links whose size (and sometimes color) indicates their relative importance (relevance, popularity, etc.) in the site" and are particularly popular in blogs and social networking sites?

Tag Clouds

As a responsible Web designer, what do you need to keep at the top of your priority list?

The needs of your users.

When you test your navigation system on real-world users, what should you be looking for?

The test subjects' positional awareness while navigating the site.

Which of the following is not true about navigation elements?

They should be clever, funny, poetic and creative.

Question 8 :The main goal of site navigation should always be:

To enable your site visitors to find what they are looking for quickly and easily.