Jump-to links enable quicker navigation

📆 Study info

Information architecture usability testing - October 2022 - Facilitator: @ClementineHahn

🚦 Issue severity

💚 Enabler - This helped the participant do something more effectively or efficiently.

📝 What happened?

During a task that brought them to a page with jump-to links available, almost all participants used the feature to locate specific information on a page. Two remarked on how useful it was. The links were labeled to match the specific piece of information they were looking for. One participant appreciated that the sidebar was persistent as the page scrolled.

💬 In the participant's own words

” Approche agile. phases de livraison… le menu à gauche, ça c’est tres direct “ ”Oh. Well that was easy, it was on the left ” ”but here it was on the left and when i scroll down it was still there “ ”Beta , right here, on the left menu again, very easy to find “

📗 User story

As a public servant looking for specific information, I need quick way to scan the contents of a page, so that I can jump to the information that I need without scanning the whole page.

📜 Recommendations

keep the sidebar jump-to links navigation feature
consistently break up long pages with descriptive headers so that sidebar jump-to link component can be included

ℹ️ More info

Jump-to links release PR

cds-snc / resources-ressources