[Sigia-l] Sigia-l Digest, Vol 35, Issue 29

[Ziya Oz]

Amanda Xu:

> navigation allows the user to access the 'ofness' and 'aboutness' of a
> document

This is a physical-world construct being applied to the virtual. Because in
the virtual world, navigation can also be interactional or transactional
*without* a reference to 'frozen' documents.

For example, an airline-hotel-car booking process might have, say, 5-6
steps/pages 'navigated' through "Save & Continue" buttons, perhaps with
"Steps" buttons on top that allow arbitrary access to the individual steps
of the process. There's clearly navigation, lots of sub processes, info,
data, fragments, etc. are accessed throughout the process, but there are no
real documents involved. There are also other 'embedded' navigation schemes
within games and game-like presentations wherein users 'navigate' but again
without reference to documents. And so on.

-- 
Ziya

Cosmetics add value,
Design creates it.