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This is not only an era of information explosion, but also an era of service explosion.

All because of the Internet, with the development of Internet technology, the increase of information, the increase of services, the diversification of user needs. How to make users get what they want as quickly as possible, the design of navigation is very important.

With the continuous increase of bandwidth and the research and development of Internet technology, I believe that the forms of navigation will be more diversified, and this diversification will not bring complexity of use, but more humanization.

Here are some directions of navigation that I think will be more popular in the future.

Draw lessons from the navigation mode of traditional software engineering

Google started with search, but pointed at Microsoft. Microsoft integrates the computer software industry with an operating system platform, while google wants to build a new platform to integrate all network services.

As you can see from the image above, the navigation of google is strikingly similar to that of XP. The quick start in the lower left corner of XP is the same as the navigation in the upper left corner of google. Google doesn't make any difference except for plain text and no icons.

Taking a closer look at the upper-right corner of google, I made an assumption that when you click My Account, instead of refreshing the page, but popping up a panel to display the information inside, is it more like the start menu of windows? You can try to observe the google users around you, many people use some of google's services are advanced google.com, and then click the My Account in the upper right corner to find the service they want.

If interested students go to study the architecture of igoogle, it is easy to find that it seems to pose as a web desktop, which is a little bit like a windows desktop.

If google is the integration of web services, take a look at the navigation at the information level. At the last UCDChina book meeting, we briefly discussed the changes in amazon navigation. Amazon can be said to be the ancestor of web product navigation. White Ravens originally introduced the changing history of amazon navigation until now.

As you can see from the picture above, is it a bit of a shadow of the start menu? Amazon has a bright orange button "Shop All Departments" on each child page. You can switch to any other parent or child page in any child page.

In fact, with the innovation of technology, the concepts of software and online services will become more and more vague and blend. With the impact of google online products on traditional software, from Gmail, google doc, we can see that only the concept is subverted, and the user experience basically follows the habits of traditional software. Directories, right-click menus, drag-and-drop, keyboard shortcuts and other nouns that used to appear only in client products are also becoming popular in browsers, and users are also very easy to use.

From the perspective of user experience, operating system and software engineering have been relatively mature after decades of exploration, not to mention to cultivate the habits of almost all computer users. Network products should be used for reference and imitated, which is the greatest respect for users.

Navigation without "navigation"-search

The root of navigation lies in classification, when there are 10000 messages, we need categories, when there are 100 messages, we have tag, when there are 100... 00 messages, no matter how the classification is difficult to find, so there is a search.

As more and more information accumulates on a website, search will become more and more important. So that one day, when the site finds that more than 50% of users come to your site the first thing to do is to search, search will become a navigation without "navigation".

Social navigation

When a user knows exactly what he needs, he needs to find navigation and search. If he logs on the Internet and doesn't know what he wants, in the past, many users opened QQ and asked their friends: is there anything interesting these days? Now that there are so many Chinese versions of facebook, there is no need to ask.

The Chinese network has a unique landscape, that is, QQ users. How many users contact the Internet from QQ? Before they even know what a browser is, they have become deep users of QQ.

I have met such a user. QQ is his first stop on the Internet. He almost does not regularly log on to a website. More than half of the web pages used are through links sent by friends. I can often see him pull out some URL links from very deep chat records and close them immediately.

The biggest selling point of facebook is the behavior of follow friends, and facebook is an upgrade to the needs of QQ users above. Many times when we open facebook the first thing is to check what our friends have done recently, try not to use the navigation above and on the left side of facebook, we will find that we can also play.

Of course, most of the time these navigation forms will not exist in isolation, the original purpose of navigation is to facilitate users and optimize the experience.

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