[Sigia-l] tabbed design user test

[David Heller]

Tabs succeed or fail on their nomenclature and if they really look like
a tabbed system. If the names are good, and the tabs are clearly
visually defined as tabs then they work. 

We have tabs but the designs are not so clear and our names are not so
clear which is why they failed miserably. As soon as we changed the
visual look there was a 50% improvement, and then by changing the names
we could make further improvements, but changing names requires more
teams to approve.

-- dave

David Heller
Sr. User Interface Designer
Documentum: The Leader in Enterprise Content Management
925.600.5636
 
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--"If it isn't useful, it will never be usable."


-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Denise (Hewitt) [mailto:denise.smith at idea.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:13 AM
To: 'sigia-l at asis.org'
Subject: [Sigia-l] tabbed design user test


Hi all! 

Its me again... 

I'm working with a client's usability person to design the tasks to go
through a tabbed e-commerce design.  The tabs are basically for more
information like product specs and awards. Any thoughts on problems that
are currently known with tabbed designs I should include on my testing?

Thanks for the assist!

Denise Ereka Smith, Information Architect
Idea Integration
Phone: 713.353.4320
Fax: 713.626.2792
E-mail: denise.smith at idea.com


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