SETIDAKNYA ada Dua Kesalahan Fatal Desain Halaman Depan Blog yang sering diabaikan atau dilanggar, dari 10 elemen yang merusak Homepage menurut hasil studi NN Group:
#1. Use color to distinguish visited and unvisited linksCompliance rate: 33%
Guideline number in Homepage Usability book: 37
Knowing where you've been is one of the three basic features that all
navigation designs should support. (The other two are "Where am I?" and "Where can I go?")
It's sad that only a third of corporate homepages tell users at a glance which site areas they've already seen. Navigational confusion results when designers disable one of the few useful features of a standard Web browser: having visited and unvisited links appear in different colors. Our testing has shown that violating this guideline is particularly harmful for
elderly users.
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More on changing link colors#2
Don't include an active link to the homepage on the homepage!Compliance rate: 41%
Guideline number in Homepage Usability book: 43
This is a special case of a guideline that applies to all website or intranet pages: never have a link that points to the current page. (A button to refresh stock quotes or other changing information is a different matter, and should be presented as a command button rather than a navigation link since it doesn't lead to a new location.) Active links to current pages cause three problems:
- If they click it, a link leading to the current page is an utter waste of users' time.
- Worse, such links cause users to doubt whether they're really at the location they think they're at.
- Worst of all, if users do follow these no-op links they'll be confused as to their new location, particularly if the page is scrolled back to the top.
Homepage links on the homepage typically result from using a universal navigation bar that includes "home" as an option. Fine. But when users are on a page that's featured in the navbar, you should turn off that option's link and highlight it in such as way that indicates that it's the current location.
Sumber: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/most-violated-homepage-guidelines/
