Navigation Design

• Questions
  • Why is site navigation often haphazard?
  • Why might emphasis be more on aesthetics?
  • What does the medium of the Web make possible?
• Design
  • Scale and Grouping: Webs to Packages to Pages
  • Relationships: Package, Page, and Link
  • Mathematics: Graph Theory
• Testing
  • Clicks: User traversal through web among pages, packages information
  • What is your metric for effective navigation design?