[Sigia-l] Nav on Product Detail Pages, E-commerce

[Chris Pallé]

Hi all- has anyone seen any good reports or have opinions w/r/t  
navigation on product detail pages? I have seen articles that allude  
to omitting it, but looking to the experts' opinions out here :-)

Thanks
cp

Chris Palle, {human} experience
blue flame interactive
732-513-3570
http://blueflameinteractive.com
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On Jan 9, 2008, at 5:24 AM, "Melvin Jay Kumar" <melvink2 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Thank you again.!
>
> Ahhh....to have the luxury to prototype and test.....I would love to
> to do that!!! ;P
>
> Aditya , thank you for that link about PDF from Jakob Nielson.  Much
> appreciated.
>
> I think I am looking to that blunt sharp object lying down there. ;p
>
> Regards,
>
> Jay Kumar
>
> On 1/9/08, Donna Maurer <donnam at maadmob.net> wrote:
>> My proof comes from lots of experience. That convinces my clients,  
>> but I
>> know it won't convince yours.
>>
>> The idea of embedding FAQs in a downloadable seems bad to me. The  
>> user
>> situation when looking at an FAQ is 'I have a question and hope to  
>> hell
>> this thing answers it'. Which means they want it in their face, on  
>> the
>> screen.
>>
>> But as Andrew said, this particular example would be fairly easy to
>> prototype and walk through (or test ;)
>>
>> Donna
>>
>> Melvin Jay Kumar wrote:
>>> Thank you to all for your replies. Much appreciated. I agree for  
>>> most
>>> of what has been suggested.
>>>
>>> But I would think as most of you know that working in a  
>>> corporation or
>>> Govt or as a "consultant" when you recommend something that the
>>> respective party you are recommending to is against they want some
>>> kind of "proof" or else they would just do what they think is
>>> right.....
>>>
>>> That is the basic reason why I asked for an type of "proof" I could
>>> use to convince them. This is more for an Intranet site and the  
>>> funny
>>> thing its a webpage that support the most frequently asked questions
>>> for three different "products" and they want to provide the FAQ's in
>>> three word documents so every time the user wants to find out
>>> something from the FAQ, he/she would have to download all three word
>>> document.
>>>
>>> I see a whole of lot of issues with that.
>>>
>>> Sigh.....
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Jay Kumar
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Donna Maurer
>> Maadmob Interaction Design
>> e: donna at maadmob.net
>> web: http://maadmob.net/maadmob_id/
>> book: http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/cardsorting/
>>
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