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# Paperback: 456 pages
# Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (June 1, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596528108
# ISBN-13: 978-0596528102
# Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 8 x 0.9 inches
# Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds

Product Description
Thoroughly rewritten for today’s scheme environment, this bestselling aggregation offers a firm countenance at a base matter of scheme place development: guidance design. Amid every the changes to the Web in the time decade, and every the hype most Web 2.0 and assorted “rich” mutual technologies, the base problems of creating a beatific scheme guidance grouping remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that beatific guidance is not most technology-it’s most the structure grouping encounter information, and how you pass them.

Ideal for first to grey scheme designers, managers, added non-designers, and scheme utilization pros hunting for added perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers base organisation principles, utilization techniques and applicatory advice, with real-world examples and primary concepts seamlessly bifold in. How does your scheme place help your playing objectives? How does it foregather a user’s needs? You’ll see that guidance organisation touches most added aspects of scheme place development. This book:

* Provides the foundations of scheme guidance and offers a support for guidance design
* Paints a panoptic represent of scheme guidance and base manlike aggregation behavior
* Demonstrates how guidance reflects sort and affects place credibility
* Helps you see the difficulty you’re disagreeable to cipher before you ordered discover to design
* Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and assorted types of navigation
* Explores “information scent” and “information shape”
* Explains “persuasive” structure and added organisation concepts
* Covers primary contexts, much as guidance organisation for scheme applications
* Includes an whole chapter on tagging

While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating guidance systems for large, information-rich sites bringing a playing purpose, the principles and techniques in the aggregation also administer to diminutive sites. Well researched and cited, this aggregation serves as an superior meaning on the topic, as substantially as a superior doctrine guide. Each chapter ends with advisable datum and a ordered of questions that substance exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.

About the Author
James Kalbach has a honor in accumulation power from Rutgers University, as substantially as a master’s in penalization theory and composition. He is currently a Human Factors Engineer with LexisNexis and previously served as nous of aggregation structure with Razorfish Germany. He is an astir utterer and communicator on aggregation structure and usability in Germany, where he helped co-found an IA community.

Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience