[Sigia-l] testing navigation models

[Eric Scheid]

On 22/3/05 2:18 PM, "Donna Maurer" <donna at maadmob.net> wrote:

> Hehe, but none of these test *navigation*, they test the IA.

It wouldn't be hard to test the navigation with the basic process/technique
inherent to Card Based Classification Evaluation:

   "you are looking for X, here are the navigation links, pick one"

   "ok, these links are still available in the main nav, and these
    are the new links available on this page. pick one"

   "ok, these links are still available in the main nav, and these
    are the new links available on this page. pick one"

    etc

Navigation however is so often heavily influenced by the usability of the
implementation, information scent, way-finding clues, etc that I have my
doubts it can be tested independently.

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