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Rules for Good Menu Design

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As a Web Designer/Developer, you’re constantly dealing with an amazingly unpredictable element: the user. Users (surfers, customers, etc.) rely on your help and judgment to guide them through your site, frequently taking turns you can’t anticipate. This chapter looks at the ways in which many sites have approached the Herculean task of helping users find what they’re seeking — often, unfortunately, losing their way themselves.

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Gibbons, D. (2002). Rules for Good Menu Design. In: Constructing Usable Web Menus. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5358-7_2

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5358-7_2

  • Publisher Name: Apress, Berkeley, CA

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