Unit 3 Reading

In the unit 3 reading "Street Signs and Bread Crumbs" the author talks about the relations of cyberspace and the physical world. The example he used was a scene at  Sears. He refers that different from the real world where you have physical memory of where the item your looking for on certain aisles by physically remembering where it was by like the refrigerators but in web theres no sense of scale, direction or location, its like teleporting to a different area, which is why it's important to have a logo to let the user know that your still at the same site and a  page title to that is prominent for users to know where exactly they are. Another analogy was how the LA street signs are prominent and how its important that it is input in the website to help it make for easy navigation. I would of never thought of it that way however that does make a lot of sense to me. He also said there were two  type of people, one was the "search-dominant" user who will always go straight to the search box first and the "link-dominant" user who will always try to browse first. I believe I am a link-dominant person however if I was trying to find something specific right away like store hours I would use the search box first.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/04/19/showcase-of-creative-navigation-menus-good-and-bad-examples/

http://wlion.com/blog/2007/11/12/who-really-has-time-to-go-back-to-the-top%E2%80%9D/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/04/designing-the-holy-search-box-examples-and-best-practices/