The Navigation Metaphor

Wie könnte man die Woche besser beginnen, als über Navigation nachzudenken? Navigation as a Faulty Metaphor.

Physical navigation is often used as a metaphor for traversing of a hypertext or a database. The activity that users engage in as they follow links in a hypertext is the navigation that we consider to be a browsing strategy. In this strategy, the process and the information found along the way are what is important… This type of navigation is in contrast with the goal-oriented physical navigation that uses cues from the environment only to check progress towards a goal.

Navigation ist sicherlich unser aller Lieblingsthema. Ich empfehle da immer Jims Buch: Designing Web Navigation.