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Navigation Design
Designing how people move through a place or product, know where they are and get back.
What is Navigation Design?
Designing how people move through a place or product, know where they are and get back.
What you learn
People need to know where they are, and how to get back.
When it helps
people get lost or can’t get back, or menus grow with every new feature.
Use it at work
- Show where people are at every point.
- Show the main routes from here.
- Always offer a clear way back.
- Test with people who arrive through side doors and links.
Your output
Open a deep page in your product from an outside link. Check that it shows where you are and how to get back.
Watch for
Navigation that leads forward but gives no sense of place or way back.
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