intuitive navigation
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- mennik
http://theremedy.be/scrap/spaz03…
It's not entirely finished but I'm at a point this nav is now so clear to me and I'm afraid it isn't for first time visitors.
What you think.
- rabattski0
well i found the actual menu by accident. which is not handy. i thought it was the options on the right. small indicator should solve it though.
- stewart0
you hit the nail on its head paul
- XC010
nice site i like the nav. You would be surprised at how some people won't get it at all though, some of the feedback i got from my site was unbelievable, (it has a similar nav to yours). then do you design for the people who will get it and appreciate it (the people you want to impress) or dumb it down so far that the nav is like every other site on the internet.?!
- stewart0
you'tr right XC about not dumbing down the nav so every 90 year old ppl can use it...
but show that there IS a navigation at all would be nice.
- XC010
yep.
- stewart0
all right then.
- XC010
lol. i can't give long winded posts when i'm busy, sorry, i just agree ;)
- ldww0
i also found the menu by accident...
maybe show the menu there when the site first loads, and then it slides off. that way at least people know there is a menu.
- ribit0
Left nav could start in view then dissappear after a few secs? Also its easy to accidently mouseover the right arrows, after which they dissappear, so some people wont ever notice that either...
smooth nav when its found though!
- winter0
i think that pushing navigation to the limit where the user has to SEARCH for something and learn on that function is a DUTY for designers.
people are getting stupid and lazy on usability (like those badly constructed dictionnaries that kindly correct your mistakes and never get you to learn anything).
So your nav is good, intuitive, and gets people to discover how things work. that relation that you can construct between a brand and its costumers is SOLID and may endure. If you have people that give up in 2 secs, then its just something occasional and no real relationship with the brand is created: the product fails to establish any valid connection and any other product would do. No real surplus is created by usability.