Comments on: Good signage http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/05/good-web-navigation/ Talking about websites Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:15:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Keira Soleore http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/05/good-web-navigation/#comment-51 Keira Soleore Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:20:16 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=26#comment-51 Emily, just found out you and Julie are at BEA this weekend. Hope you'll blog about your experience. And I hope it was a successful weekend for WC (your site, not the toilet). Emily, just found out you and Julie are at BEA this weekend. Hope you’ll blog about your experience. And I hope it was a successful weekend for WC (your site, not the toilet).

]]> By: Emily Cotler http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/05/good-web-navigation/#comment-31 Emily Cotler Sun, 25 May 2008 19:08:18 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=26#comment-31 Keira, sorry to hear about your gate fiasco. And a toddler to Asia? I can’t imagine. In terms of “Sometimes I have to wonder at the expense that goes into a site that’s impossible traverse,” I hear ya! What is probably happening there is that the client is dictating the navigation: “I want a button for this and this and this.” Most web designers are not also information designers so they take what the client says and just build it. And while clients definitely have vision, web design is not usually their area of expertise. It is the good over-all web designer who can take the client’s vision and shape it into really good user flow through well-thought-out navigation. But that requires information design expertise, and the resources in the budget to work on it. A lot of designers can produce a site on-the-cheap if they skip the information design. –Emily, who also finds power in hyphenation Keira, sorry to hear about your gate fiasco. And a toddler to Asia? I can’t imagine.

In terms of “Sometimes I have to wonder at the expense that goes into a site that’s impossible traverse,” I hear ya! What is probably happening there is that the client is dictating the navigation: “I want a button for this and this and this.” Most web designers are not also information designers so they take what the client says and just build it.

And while clients definitely have vision, web design is not usually their area of expertise. It is the good over-all web designer who can take the client’s vision and shape it into really good user flow through well-thought-out navigation. But that requires information design expertise, and the resources in the budget to work on it. A lot of designers can produce a site on-the-cheap if they skip the information design.

–Emily, who also finds power in hyphenation

]]> By: Keira Soleore http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/05/good-web-navigation/#comment-28 Keira Soleore Sun, 25 May 2008 01:55:02 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=26#comment-28 Omigosh, you're prescient, Emily. I just returned home from a gate fiasco, when we should've been on the east coast right now. Luckily our li'l one's a trooper, even on long-haul trips to Asia. Regarding site nav: Sometimes I have to wonder at the expense that goes into a site that's impossible traverse. Too much whiz-bang stuff that makes it cool as a first-time treat, but is a frustrating exercise forever more. Keira-who-loves-hyphenated-words :) Omigosh, you’re prescient, Emily. I just returned home from a gate fiasco, when we should’ve been on the east coast right now. Luckily our li’l one’s a trooper, even on long-haul trips to Asia.

Regarding site nav: Sometimes I have to wonder at the expense that goes into a site that’s impossible traverse. Too much whiz-bang stuff that makes it cool as a first-time treat, but is a frustrating exercise forever more.

Keira-who-loves-hyphenated-words :)

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