Usability Forum

Inhabitat mixes mental models

By Eddie Lopez. Friday, 17. April 2009, 14:25:11

Inhabitat is a great site. I love the designs there and actually spend a lot of time going through all the posts there and reading about eco design. I don't really fancy myself a "green" person, although I'm always for less brown air, but I am very interested in "efficient" designs. As it turns out, these are often found on "green" sites.

Anyway- at the bottom of the page, there's the navigation, but they confusingly mix their metaphors. When you get to the bottom, you see "PREVIOUS PAGE" and "NEXT PAGE." But- "page" is ambiguous as a browser page, previous page is synonymous with "back" in my mind. I haven't previously seen any pages yet! Of course, it means "previous entries." All navigation schemes I can think of label it in terms of the articles/entries, not "pages."

Replace "page" with "entries," Or "previous/next" with "older/newer"

iPod Shuffle: Simplicity is key. Simple for humans, not manufacturingMatchstick memories- I'm just a simple caveman usability analyst....

Comments

Kenneth Maage # 20. April 2009, 08:57

Also there should be some content included, like the title of the entry as here on myOpera. That allows a person to see if they are interested before clicking.