A simple global navigation bar. Too cold? Too hot? Or just right?
A simple global navigation bar. Too cold? Too hot? Or just right?
Published on August 15, 2006
Filed in Eportfolio, Graphical User Interface, Web design
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I did some external user-testing on this. Asking a small amount of people what they would expect these buttons to do.
The interesting finding being that there was a concensus that ’share’ and ‘delete’ would apply to the page the were actually on, not a global navigation function.
When I explained what the buttons actually did the suggestion was to replace ’share’ and ‘delete’ with either ‘manage’ or ‘organise’.
Manage sounds like a good idea to me.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:14 pm