1. Micha Pkaa How to designdecent site navigationDrupal City Berlin, 17 September 2011 2. About me travelling usability Google fan inline skater 3. ToC Definitions Ideas on navigation design Golden rules that dont work Why drupal.org is sometimes horrible Examples of good/bad navigation Drupal modules to improve navigation 4. Definitions 5. Information needs Known-item seeking Exhaustive search Exploratory seeking Refinding 6. Information need Known item seeking Wheres the Token module? The right thing 7. Information need Exhaustive search Lets learn Drupal APIs Everything 8. Information need Exploratory seeking What modules are there for Google+? A few good things 9. Information need Refinding Wheres the Rules tutorial that I saw yesterday? Need it again 10. Information needsInformation Architecture for the World Wide Web - Rosenfeld, Morville (OReilly) 11. Information needsExhaustive search Clicking (exploring)Exploratory seekingKnown-item seeking Typing (searching)Refinding 12. Navigation systems Embedded Global Local Contextual Information Architecture for the World Wide Web - Rosenfeld, Morville (OReilly) 13. Navigation systems Supplemental Site maps Indices GuidesInformation Architecture for the World Wide Web - Rosenfeld, Morville (OReilly) 14. Ideas onnavigation design 15. Navigation for searching Do You need it at all? 100 Pages Rule Exception 1: e-shop Exception 2: news site Google Ignore the search or use Google Custom Search Common sense 16. Navigation for searching All or nothing Keep it accurate and up-to-date Time and means to optimise Algorithms Infrastructure Know-how Better alternatives 17. Navigation for searching All or nothing tech perspective Spell checking Stemming tools (inflection!) Thesauri semantic relations Synonyms / antonyms Hyperonym / hyponym Meronym / holonym Natural language 18. Navigation for searchingInformation Architecture for the World Wide Web - Rosenfeld, Morville (OReilly) 19. Navigation for searching The box Big enough (padding) Autosuggestions if it makes sense 20. Navigation for exploring 3 Clicks Rule Easy to choose the right item (ultimate goal) 21. Navigation for exploringPeople Are lazy Take shortcuts Dont care about your hard work < 10 seconds on a website 22. Navigation for exploringhttp://www.useit.com/alertbox/page-abandonment-time.html 23. Navigation for exploring 3 Questions Rule Where am I? Where can I go? Where have I been? 24. Navigation for exploring 3 most common use cases Keep them in mind 25. Navigation for exploring Half of the half 5-9 Items Rule Keep only the essential! Less to read/process More understandable 26. Navigation for exploring Keep the names short Consider the context Dont be too polite Dont be too smart Avoid certain word repetitions 27. Navigation for exploring Contextual navigation Guess the next action Dont throw all the metadata at people 28. Navigation for exploring Ultimately How can I display subsubsubmenu? Dont throw all the metadata at people Explain all the navigation in 3 sentences 29. Examples 30. Examples http://drupal.org main menu http://drupal.org/project/modules bad descriptions lots of information, lacking some important (popularity, Drupal versions) 31. Examples http://wordpress.org http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page good navigation 32. Modules 33. Modules Superfish Nice Menus Megamenu 34. Modules Context 35. Modules Views :-) 36. SUMMARY Good menuleaves no doubts what to click 37. Thanks for Your timeLets discuss or go awayMicha Pkaawww.pekala.pldajpanspokoj@gmail.com