Designing Web Navigation

FURTHER READING

About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design, by Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann (Wiley, 2006).

This book offers a very deep look at the various aspects of interaction design, including user research, persona and scenario development, and a painstakingly detailed review of interface mechanisms, widgets, and screens. Chapter 11 discusses navigation for desktop software applications in particular.

Designing for Interaction, by Dan Saffer (New Riders, 2006).

This is a concise but broad overview of the field of interaction design. Discussions include the design of digital interfaces, mobile devices, physical products, and even service design.

Making the Web Work, by Bob Baxley (New Riders, 2003).

Baxley offers a thorough look at designing web applications by structuring this book around a process for designing them. It includes discussions of problem analysis and audience research, as well as structuring the web application. The text is easily approachable for novices, but substantial enough for experts to get something out of it.

Web Application Design Handbook, by Susan Fowler and Victor Stanwick (Morgan Kaufmann, 2004).

Weighing in at over 650 pages, this book presents a thorough look at application design. It serves as a good reference source for anyone developing web applications. It describes how web applications are different than web sites, but in doing so relies on references to desktop applications perhaps too often.