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Navigation Design

Spirit Softworks can design highly usable, intuitable navigation systems for your Web sites or other digital products that support

  • your users’ wayfinding and information-seeking behaviors
  • tasks whose interaction sequences occur across multiple Web pages or screens—for example, shopping on an e-commerce site

Navigation design comprises both the design of interactions that allow users to traverse your Web pages or screens and the design of visual elements that present primary and secondary modes of navigation that are consistent across your Web site or other digital product, as follows:

  • Primary modes of navigation include
  • navigation bars
  • menus
  • tab sets
  • Secondary modes of navigation include
  • breadcrumbs
  • embedded links—either hypertext, image links, or buttons
  • image maps
  • site maps
  • site indexes

Navigation Design Specification

Building on the information architecture strategy for your Web site or other digital product, Spirit Softworks can produce a detailed Navigation Design Specification that defines

  • all modes of navigation
  • the affordances, or interactive elements, that make the structure and navigation system of your Web site or product visible to users
  • the labeling for these affordances
  • user interactions and product behaviors that support wayfinding, information-seeking, and interaction sequences that occur across multiple Web pages or screens

Our Navigation Design Specification includes

  • site diagrams—which provide an up-to-date visual representation of your Web site or product’s structure. These site diagrams show the hierarchical and key associative relationships that exist between Web pages or screens, which determine the navigational paths between them.
  • wireframes or screen images—which illustrate all interactive navigation elements