External Article: 7 Guidelines For Better Navigation And Categories
To see our 8 prior Smashing Magazine articles, check out Christian’s author page.
In today’s article, we’ll go over 7 guidelines from the Homepage & Category Usability research report.
The article is published as a guest post at Smashing Magazine and explores some of the low-hanging fruit when it comes to improving the category navigation on an e-commerce site:
An E-Commerce Study: Guidelines For Better Navigation And Categories
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Benny NievesJuly 22, 2015
Any thoughts on the new hidden main nav designs we see popping up more and more? Sites like Amazon and Jet.com are employing them these days.
some nameDecember 11, 2017
link doesn’t work
Christian, Baymard InstituteDecember 12, 2017
thanks for the heads up. smashing magazine changed their links apparently. i’ve updated the url