AusWeb99 Front Door SiteMap
The Terrain
Walls
Doors
Wallpaper
Structure and Access: 2 Fundamental Web Design Principles
Introduction
Principle 1:
Structure
Wallpaper
handholds
Conclusion
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user anxiety |
Wallpaper - Designing the InterfaceThe walls are built, the navigation designed, now its time to think of what things look like inside, to think of the wallpaper.Again there is a need to first think structure rather than detail. At the interface level, the structure is the context. When
someone reads a book, they know where they are. A book is a concrete object that can be held in the hands, whether read at the bus stop, on the bus or at the kitchen table on reaching home. The context of a book is firm and the reader well held.
They are within the boundaries of two covers and there is an index to consult if they get lost.
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structure
as
context
References
Hypertext
References
Bibliography
a stage
not a page
Principle 2:
Access
The Terrain
Making it Easy
ShapeMakers