Folksonomy is a system for creating and managing tags to annotate and categorise content. Folksonomy may also be referred to as collaborative tagging, social indexing and social tagging. It allows for the user to find their way around the site with ease.
Who is Dr Jakob Nielson?
Jakob Nielson has a list of positive attributes associated with his name from “the King of Usabilty” to a “person who knows more about what makes websites work than anyone else on the planet” http://www.useit.com/jakob/
Dr Nielson is the founder of “discount usability engineering” movement providing both inexpensive and rapid improvements of user interfaces which includes the heuristic evaluation. Jakob Nielson is the holder of 79 United States patents that are mainly concerned with making the internet easier to use.
Why usability testing works for small groups? As you add more and more users you learn less and less because you will keep seeing the same things again and again. After the fifth user you are wasting your time by observing the same findings .
Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs uses a single line of text to show a pages location in the site hierarchy. While secondary, this navigation technique is increasingly beneficial to users.
Breadcrumbs uses a single line of text to show a pages location in the site hierarchy. While secondary, this navigation technique is increasingly beneficial to users.
Breadcrumbs have always been a secondary navigation aid. They share this status with site maps. To navigate, site visitors mainly use the primary menus and the search box which are certainly more important for usability.
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