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Purpose and goals of navigation areas #9

Open mikegianno opened 6 years ago

mikegianno commented 6 years ago

At this point we have three navigation areas:

  1. Header navigation area, the top level of navigation [generic and irrelevant to the displayed page]
  2. Sub-header navigation area, right below the top navigation [relevant to the context of the specific page]
  3. Side menu navigation, column navigation related to a top level navigation selection [sticky for a specific top level section]

This is a pretty cool information architecture that we should put some more reasoning than what is contained in the brackets ([]).

Additionally, it would be really really cool if we could answer the problem of where each type of navigation element should "live" on a navigation area. Types of elements are:

If we have a dedicated area for each type then we: A. Have a more definite problem to solve when trying to add a new element on a navigation area B. Our users will be already trained/acquainted with where should a "new thing" be placed.

dontpanicgr commented 6 years ago

Product Sitemap https://www.gloomaps.com/fNmqYNf4ET

The above is a section/page sitemap of our Information Architecture. Not included nodes. Nodes: A single node can be represented in a number of ways (a page, a pop-up, a light-box, a section of a page)


Further reading: What's a Sitemap? A site map is like a floor plan for your site. Site maps give you a visual representation of the site's organization and how different sections are linked together.

In short, a site map is a 30,000 foot view of the site (and all it's content) that puts the project team on the same page so everyone can get started doing their own high-level planning.

https://www.viget.com/articles/ux-101-the-site-map/