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Testing Navigation Usability Wednesday, January 25, 12
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Testing Navigation Usability
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People won’t use our site if they can’t find their way around it.
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BrowsingSearching
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1. You’re usually trying to find something.
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2. You decide whether to ask or browse first.
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3. If you browse, you use signs to guide you.
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Fiction & Literature
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Best Sellers
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Collins, Suzanne
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4. If you can’t find what you want, you’ll leave.
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Solution:
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Navigation does 4 things:
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• Helps us find what we’re looking for
• Tells us where we are
• Tells us what’s here
• It gives us confidence in the people who built it.
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Simplified Elements:
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Persistent Navigation
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Site ID
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Local Navigation
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Provide navigation for multiple browsing behaviors
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Let’s take a look.
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Now, let’s figure out how to test for this.
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1. Choose your methods.
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• Silent observation
• Talk-aloud protocols
• Entrance-exit interviews
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Develop a protocol
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• Browsing prompts
• Behavior coding
• Interval times
• Coding sheet formats
• Final info presentation formats
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Develop browsing prompts
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