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Making DHTML Menus Suck Less

By Chris Poteet on June 3, 2010

There are design­ers on both sides of the DHTML menu issue. Some are lib­eral to use them and have no issue with them, and there are oth­ers (includ­ing myself) who think it’s not the ideal solu­tion to a nav­i­ga­tional struc­ture. Nav­i­ga­tion is unques­tion­ably the most impor­tant part of any web appli­ca­tion, and if it is […]

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A Primer on Information Architecture: Navigation

By Chris Poteet on August 22, 2008

Nav­i­ga­tion and IA Nav­i­ga­tion is with­out a doubt one of the most essen­tial ele­ments of any inter­face, and as a result ade­quate time and thought is nec­es­sary to ensure your interface’s nav­i­ga­tion is usable and com­pre­hen­sive.  From the all impor­tant global nav­i­ga­tion that stays the same through­out the site, to local nav­i­ga­tion which changes based on […]

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Objectives in User Interface Design

By Chris Poteet on December 21, 2007

At work we are cur­rently re-doing the archi­tec­ture of our user inter­face (UI) layer. We sat down to dis­cuss what our objec­tives should be in doing this ini­tia­tive, and I found the objec­tives so com­pelling that I think it could apply to any user inter­face. Below are the major objec­tives in con­struct­ing a UI: consistency, […]

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