[Sigia-l] Findability

[Boniface Lau]

> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> Behalf Of George Olsen
> 
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> 
> So it takes users a whopping 2 clicks to get to current reports, 3
> clicks to get to old reports...

So how many clicks would it take to locate reports with certain
attributes?


> 
> > In particular, when navigating through a category maze, people
> > have to constantly guess what the category maker meant by the
> > various category names. Furthermore, when they guess wrong and
> > therefore make the wrong turn, they may not realize that until
> > they have made many more subsequent turns along that wrong
> > path. Thus, they have to backtrack and go down another path. But
> > they may not even know at which point they were making the wrong
> > turn. Thus they have to start all over again. Isn't that
> > frustrating?
> 
> I'm glad you're worrying about edge cases. I'll worry about the
> probable ones...

Yeah, your response is so typical among maze creators. To them,
navigating through their own handy creation is so effortless and
natural. Back tracking is only an edge situation.

Unfortunately, to those who did not create the maze, back tacking
is all too often a probable case, not an edge case.


Boniface