Navigating Information Space: Web site design and lessons from the built environment
Navigating Information Space: Web site design and lessons from the built environment
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导航信息空间：网站设计和建筑环境的经验教训
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2006
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David Benyon
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网络是典型的信息空间，但即使在一个设计良好的网站上，也很难找到你需要的所有信息。设计一个网站，使网站所有用户的所有信息需求在一个屏幕上得到满足是不可能的。因此，人们必须从各种来源获取信息;他们在信息空间中移动，以收集所需的所有信息。这通常被称为“导航”。导航是关于发现和移动通过一个环境。当然，在物理空间中设计导航有很长的历史。建筑师，城市规划师，地理学家和其他人都研究过导航，并学会了如何设计物理空间来帮助人们找到他们正在寻找的地方，享受探索本身，或者帮助他们找到通过空间到达其他地方的方式。问题是，我们是否可以利用这些知识来设计信息空间，如网站。在本文中，我们回顾了各种观点的物理空间的导航，看看如何将这些知识转移到信息空间的设计。以Gordon Cullen的系列视觉理论设计网站地图为例，说明知识从城市空间设计到数字空间设计的转移。提供了良好网站设计的指导方针和如何在网站内使用社会导航的示例。
The Web is the archetypal information space but even on a well designed site it can be difficult to find all the information you need. It is impossible to design a site so that all the information needs of all the users of the site are satisfied on a single screen. Accordingly people have to pick up information from a variety of sources; they move through the information space to gather all the information that is required. This is generally called ‘navigation’. Navigation is concerned with finding out about, and moving through, an environment. Of course there is a long history of designing for navigation in physical spaces. Architects, urban planners, geographers and others have studied navigation and learnt how to design physical spaces to help people find the place they are looking for, to enjoy exploration for its own sake, or to help find their way through a space to get somewhere else. The question arises as to whether we can leverage any of this knowledge for the design of information spaces such as Web sites. In this paper we review a variety of views on navigation of physical space to see how this knowledge might transfer to the design of information spaces. The example of using Gordon Cullen’s serial vision theory to design a Web site map is used to show the transfer of knowledge from the design of urban space to the design of digital space. Guidelines for good Web site design and examples of how social navigation can be used within Web sites are provided.