Lately I’ve noticed something eerie as I go to type in the home URL of some of my favorite sites. My browser’s history, which goes back nine days, does not remember the home page. As we trend away from home page supremacy, global navigation becomes all the more important.
Derek Powazek has a three point plan for planning the most crucial element of your user interface:
- Never, ever link to the page you’re on
- Show where you are
- Think before you link
Searching and other content filters (like RSS) are only going to become more prevalent. We can’t count on visitors streaming in our front door. We have to be ready for them climbing in the windows, or walking up from the basement.
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