Subject Index Navigation Topics include information retrieval, searching techniques, search technologies, browsing, language processing, labeling, and primary, contextual and supplemental navigation. The following resources are our top picks in this category. Effective View Navigation . George W. Furnas. This paper explores the implications of rudimentary requirements for effective view navigation, namely that, despite the vastness of an information structure, the views must be small, moving around must not take too many steps and the route to any target must be discoverable.
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This site explains how search engines work, tips to use them more effectively, links to resources, a newsletter and more. Steering Users Isn't Easy . This means designers may have trouble steering users to material they're not actually looking for, even if the users would find the information valuable. Toward Usable Browse Hierarchies for the Web . Hans-Jorg Bull, editor.