Designing Web Navigation

FURTHER READING

"Design Recommendations for Hierarchical Faceted Search Interfaces," by Marti Hearst, ACM SIGIR Workshop on Faceted Search (August, 2006). Available online at: http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/papers/faceted-workshop06.pdf.

After 13 years of research on faceted browsing, Marti Hearst, head of the Flamenco project at the University of California, Berkeley, summarizes the group's key findings as a set of design recommendations. This article is short and practical. See the many other key publications of the Flamenco Search Interface Project: http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/pubs.html.

"How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put it On the Web," by William Denton. (November 2003). Available online at: http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-web-howto.html.

William Denton offers an excellent summary of facets, as well as practical tips on how to create and use facets on the Web. He references key academic sources, but keeps the text light and readable. This is an excellent starting point to understanding facets with how-to information.