John C Klensin wrote:
what is
key is not having to do a lot of navigation, involving loading
and examining multiple pages (_especially_ if those pages are
slow) to get to things that are in the critical path of doing
work.
I suspect the current problem is due to an organizing approach that is based
on convenience (and perspective) of the folks who maintain the pages, rather
than for the convenience of the people using the pages. This is a common user
interface design error, not in the least peculiar to the IETF.
Your phrasing the issue as "navigation" seems quite helpful. It eliminates
philosophical points, such as I'm raising in the previous paragraph, and
provides a simple criteria: Is it easy to get the desired information?
That's keyclicks, visual scan effort, and mnemonics. Minimize the first two,
and maximize the last.
d/
ps. Your phrase "critical path" goes hits a relatively new user interface
design paradigm, called "activity based design" where the user *sequence* is
considered in terms of common goals for users.
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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