[Sigia-l] Rollover Navigation Submenus: Usable or not?

[Jared M. Spool]

At 03:14 PM 12/14/2004, Jon Nakasone wrote:
>I'm in the process of rapid prototyping a horizontal navigation using
>buttons with DHTML rollover submenus.  In the midst of this I was told
>that this approach is shown to be consistently unusable by many users.
>No elaboration was provided, other than this had been a recurring
>comment in numerous usability seminars at Marketing conferences (yes,
>Marketing conferences).

Could've been my fault. Been saying this at marketing conferences (and IA 
Summits) for quite some time now:

http://www.uie.com/articles/users_decide_first/

Jared


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