Visualizing the World-Wide Web with the navigational view builder
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Designing information-abundant web sites: issues and recommendations
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: World Wide Web usability
Fourth generation hypermedia: some missing links for the World Wide Web
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: World Wide Web usability
Information architecture for the World Wide Web
Information architecture for the World Wide Web
Critical zones in desert fog: aids to multiscale navigation
Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Reading of electronic documents: the usability of linear, fisheye, and overview+detail interfaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Visual information foraging in a focus + context visualization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Human-Computer Interaction
The bull's-eye: a framework for web application user interface design guidelines
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
VL '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
Effects of scent and breadth on use of site-specific search on e-commerce Web sites
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
The effect of different types of site maps on user's performance in an information-searching task
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Web Style Guide, 3rd edition: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
Web Style Guide, 3rd edition: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
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The World Wide Web Consortium describes the Web as "the universe of network-accessible information, the embodiment of human knowledge" (W3C, 2011). This vision of the Web is contingent on the ability of users to freely access and contribute to the overall system. The freedom of the Web threatens its own future due to the possibility of users being disoriented and cognitively fatigued when trying to locate desired information. Appropriate support for navigation is required if the Web is to achieve its vision. One challenge confronting website designers is to provide effective navigational support at the local level. Supplemental navigation tools such as search, sitemap and index tools are frequently included on websites to support navigation. However, there is a lack of detailed guidelines for design of such tools. Instead changes in design appear to be by natural evolution with a 'survival of the fittest' approach. This paper reports on a longitudinal survey of design of website navigation tools within commercial websites over the past decade. The survey exposes several trends in design practice, particularly in recent years. The intention of this survey is to provide a sounder basis for future research and development of website navigation tools by clarifying existing research and identifying important issues for future investigation.