Experimentalism: creatively explore new directions. Integrative: see the big picture and create novel solutions Empathy: imagine the world from multiple perspectives.What is design? Empathy, Integrative, Optimism, Experimentalism, Collaboration.citing jjg‘s Navigation Design phases: Strategy, Scope, Structure, Skeleton, Surface.Also affecting nav: URLs/browser controls, visual design/color/style, headers/labels/titles, layout/page schema, etc.What is navigation? “All the links, labels & other elements that provide access to pages & help ppl orient themselves”.We’re going around the table introducing ourselves. is the author of “ Designing Web Navigation” (with AaronGustafson) published by O’Reilly.threefour, principal of SmartEx, a publishing-school hybrid, introducing Pivo1, user experience designer at LexisNexis.Without further ado, here are my Twitter notes: Part 1 And I’m sure that Jim would be willing to answer any questions as well. Unfortunately Jim is not at liberty to post the slides from this workshop, but I am more than happy to elaborate on any section of the course that’s of particular interest to you. Needless to say, there’s a lot of content here and I realize that as a bulleted list of tweets it may be hard to follow.
It was a 9am to 5pm workshop, with two 15-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon, and just 30 minutes for lunch. Jim did a great job in setting up structured activities that each of us can use to bring clarity and discipline to the often-befuddled early stages of a project. This “up front” work often gets glossed over or is talked about very abstractly. I was particularly thankful that Jim spent a considerable amount of time in the morning going over strategy and business objectives. I’m certain that everyone in the room walked away fully equipped to take on their next navigation design challenge. While much of what Jim spoke about wasn’t new to me, he did a fantastic job of distilling many disparate theories and synthesizing them into a set of well-organized, easy to digest principles. Victor invited me to attend the sold out workshop, and I’m glad that he did. The workshop took place in a conference room at the lovely Center for Architecture on LaGuardia Place in Manhattan. On Tuesday I attended James Kalbach‘s one-day workshop on “ Web Navigation Design” organized by Smart Experience, a small independent design school run by Victor Lombardi.
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