Sarah & Adrienne Kahn Sarah is a UX Engineer for Durham-based startup Adzerk. Adrienne is a graphic and print designer currently working from Syracuse, NY. We work together to create and build beautiful easy-to-use things at Kahnlab.com.
Good navigation is the main cornerstone of an effective website. In practice, however, it's often a tough challenge to come up with a meaningful, unambiguous way to organize, arrange, and display content to users; and it's often not much easier to find a visually interesting solution either. The wide adaption of JavaScript libraries like jQuery is making it increasingly easy to add various... Read More
One of the main goals of having a website, whether it be a portfolio website or a business website, is to declare your presence on the Web. There are thousands upon thousands of websites out there; it's pretty well established that you are competing for your audience's interest and attention. To this end, it’s important to make those few seconds count when making a first impression.
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Everyone is always looking for interesting and effective ways to organize their website and allow users to move about and find things. But there’s a fine line between unexpected and unusable. Three points to consider in any navigation scheme are consistency, user expectations and contextual clues.
If page is long and provides different levels of navigation, will users be able to find... Read More
