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Structure and Access: 2 Fundamental Web Design Principles
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Introduction

Principle 1:
Structure

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Building Structures for sense-making:
connection, interaction and interference

"Information, meaning and understanding lie predominantly in the connections not in the words themselves". (Stringer & Hamden,1997)
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Principle 2:
Access

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Making it Easy

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