Recently read an article on the navigation stress test article, think winter ridge to help, so want some of the ways which we recommend to when a user arrives at a page, often encounter the following problems:

- Where am I?
- What is this?
- Where can I go?

How to test this page navigation capacity?

(1) random selection from your web site page;
(2) this page is printed black and white, and the head of the page the browser address bar, and the following copyright and company information part removed;
(3) Pretend you are the first to enter this site and trying to answer the following questions (see the following list of questions);
(4) a piece of paper and write down what you want to answer;

Let other members of your team or friends familiar with your site and you do the same test, we like the same jump into any page of the site, then the answer write it down, you can see what is on your site agreed, what is you do not agree.

List of questions:

Stress test Paper records
This page is to write what the? The title of the page to draw a square or a piece of paper to write clearly;
This is what kind of site? The name of the site together with a circle or write on paper;
This site is the main forum? X-identification;
This page is the main forum? Identified with the triangle around the x;
Me how to reach the site's home page? Identified with H;
How can I reach the top of the site do? T to identify;
What links representing each group? The main links on the page circle out and write down identification;
D: is used to identify the more detailed sub-pages and this forum, etc.;
N: adjacent to the other in the same forum page;
S: on the same site but not adjacent pages;
O: leave this website page;
You through the path of how to reach this page for? Please write your path to reach this page, select 1> select 2> 3 ...

The author provides some examples for your reference:

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Original link: http://instone.org/navstress, I translated the above article is original, there may be some unfamiliar terminology, please forgive me!

I also use their own simple and practical way to test this over a while ago I modified Taobao gift channel, found some problems:

(1) gift channels do not "back to top" link, which is to be identified as "T" part; I read a lot of domestic sites, including some large foreign sites including yahoo, ebay, etc., are not so a "back to top" link, but Amazon has such a link, it is worth studying other sites, when users visit a number of long pages, provide users a convenient way, go back to the top of the global navigation position to allow the user to restart his Web site roaming.

(2) presents the channel page url is too long, do not most people can remember "http://www.taobao.com/vertical/present/index.php", why not call "http://gift. taobao.com "it? This user-friendly for the channel memory, but also user-friendly in the future without going through too much "choice 1> select 2> ..." way to enter the website, but directly enter "http://gift.taobao.com" into the site ;

???? Suggest that you also use the above method to test their website to see their own page in the end there is what each navigation problem! We hope the site can be improved.

?? To add: I think a test like this is best done with a few people, then the above list of questions to find the corresponding part, because each person to a top of the page to find most of their talents and time are different, such as designers can look at what their design problems, such as: "is not without a link to the page you?" "is not to the link at the top that?" page of the main part of the obvious is not good enough Zhao Ya? "" Various types of links is not easy to find and distinguish the differences between them ah? "Wait!

Tags: user testing, navigating


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