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MM 340:
Principles of Web Design

Lecture/Navigation

Home

Some Examples

IA vs. Navigation

Big Questions

Org Schemes

Alphabetical

Chronological

Geographical

Topic/Subject

Task Based

Audience Based

Metaphor Based

Techniques

 

 

 Chronological Schemes

Succeeds if information lends itself to chronological organization, then it is effective.  Allows for placing on timeline which is a cognitive organizing scheme that everyone uses and understands.

Fails, as most schemes, when there are too many on the same date.  Then we need a further categorization scheme that reduces number to easily scanned set.  E.g. graphical calendar with 50 entries per day. Adding hours or minutes can help, as in Newswires. This then becomes much like an alphabetical display.

  • Jan 25: 00:01

  • Jan 25: 00:07

Exercise:  suggest mixed systems:

  • first by topic then locally by date
    discussion groups - using threads as topics

  • date then topic - eg ... class

  • class suggest more

chronological

Here is a calendar.

 

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