SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: [Sigia-l] mixing apples and oranges
Re: [Sigia-l] mixing apples and oranges and tomatoes
From: Lucie Melahn (lucie_at_cloud9.net)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 14:07:49 EDT
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Interesting point. I wonder, though, would the users generally notice the
redundancy at all? If Joe looks for tomatoes under fruit -- and finds
them -- is he going to then check to see if they're available under
veggies as well? Probably not, because his own taxonomy has been confirmed.
Personally I don't think redundancy is a problem, even if users do notice
it. If anything, I think it would bolster their confidence that they do
not need to learn an EXACT taxonomy in order to find what they want.
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:47:16 -0400 (EDT) Tanya Rabourn wrote:
> However, isn't it at odds with this bit of research:
> "Toward Usable Browse Hierarchies for the Web"
> http://www.microsoft.com/usability/UEPostings/HCI-kirstenrisden.doc
>
> It would also seem to me that good navigation is based on learnable
> categories. If users encounter redundancy wouldn't that confuse them and
> hinder their attempts to figure out what features make something a member
> of one category and then where to look for the item that they want? (Keep
> in mind I'm not talking about some sort of forced learning of a taxonomy,
> but the sort that we naturally do everyday when meeting new concepts and
> sorting them into our own taxonomy of knowledge.)
>
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