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Navigation structure

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Navigation structure

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- [Narrator] Navigation is the movement from place to place or state to state within a product. We often discuss it in terms of changing location, go to another page or moving forward and backward in time, go back to a previous place or state. Information architecture, a field attributed to Richard Saul Wurman is the practice of organizing and arranging the components and content of a product so they are understandable and findable. Good information architecture is often considered essential for interaction design because it creates structure for connecting the sections and features of products via search and navigation. People have mental models for how information should be organized, how to find it and the order in which it should be presented, not just how to interact with the components of an interface. Information systematically organized into a familiar system will be much easier to find. Online shopping sites…

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