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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 Interface ..2The internet is a very different environment. It is not concrete it is subjective, it is not even visible. The realms of the electronic reside in a bunch of 1's and 0's which, with electrical current, have the potential to be here or there or nowhere. It is a designer's task to provide 'handholds' for the surfer. These handholds can be colour, background design, motif, a visual metaphor. Importantly, they need to be standard across the site to reinforce the visitor's sense of being in one place and to enhance the quality of holding that allays anxiety.
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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