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by tzs
1564 days ago
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Improved navigability sounds useful. I've often gotten lost at MDN when trying to learn some topic that is new to me. I see on the sidebar of the pages covering aspects of that topic more on the same topic, and within the page links to other related things. I'll have followed some sequence of links through the directed graphs that the pages and links form, and then remember that somewhere on an earlier page there was a link to part of the topic I haven't yet read and then flail around in my history trying to find where I saw that link. I'd like such sites to have available predefined sequences through the site designed to teach you particular topics. Have context sensitive next and previous and contents links on the page for moving back and forth in the sequence. Context sensitive so that if a page occurs in more than one sequence people get the appropriate navigation for the sequence they are on. |
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It does, indeed. It does also remind me of GitLab and their quest for finding the best navigation [1]. It was every few versions that the nav kept changing... from horizontal to vertical to fly out to top/side, etc. Looked like bikeshedding on the outside as it seemed to be easier to iterate over the design of the product rather than the actual product. Ultimately what their UX team settled on has been pretty stable for a while.
[1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/07/31/navigation-state-of...