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If it is potentially distracting or
annoying, eliminate it
Find out what users
expect from your site.
The overall effect is decidedly similar to television –
familiar territory for E! online’s audiences.
Think about how the user wants to
interact with the information on your
Web page.
Decide for your content type, and
decide if the user will read or scan
your pages.
Suppose your page is a collection of links,
the user would want to interact with your
page by scanning the content.
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Relative Areas of Importance
Relative Areas of Importance
1. The most important and current
information.
2. The company logo and main navigation
banner.
3. Featured stories that often change.
4. Reading content.
5. Used for links that appear consistently, but
are of secondary importance.
The user can traverse a page in a
variety of ways.
As you plan your design to guide the
user’s eye, consider the following two
examples of online reading habits.
Paper-reading based pattern
Screen-based viewing pattern
Do not make users navigate through
too many layers of your Web site to
find the information they want.
Provide prominent navigation cues that
quickly take your user to the content
they desire.
Graphical view of Web site’s information structure
Unlike paper-based authors, as a hypertext
author you have the luxury of adding
clickable text and images where necessary to
guide users through information.