[Sigia-l] tabbed design user test
Peter VanDijck
pvandijck at lds.com
Tue Dec 10 08:50:53 EST 2002
> Otherwise why bother with
> tabs anyway? Looked at "from scratch" they are a rather messy and wasteful
> way of collecting links compared to a navigation "table" and uninformative
> compared to links within text.
Steve Krug thinks otherwise, and me too. I don't know how exactly it
happened, but tabs are a de facto standard web interface widget now,
users just "get it". Your argument makes some sense theoretically, but
reality turns out to be different.
PeterV
http://poorbuthappy.com/ease
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