Design dilemma - Part Deux
Reduce visual clutter to improve visibility rails against designers cramming information into one page to improve usability.
Certainly, I can agree that putting too much text one page is overwhelming. But what about putting so many different folders that what is behind the folders is not obvious?
This resource is interesting: a collection of opinions on web design and scrolling from 2000-–a one-page, lengthy, full-screen wide—collection of opinions.
Neither of these really answer my question. Maybe a good compromise is the suggestion that a maximum of three small objects on a page is sufficient. I wish that Blackboard were a little more obvious and that it were immediately obvious how many layers deep a site goes. I guess I often feel when looking at Blackboard course that the depth of what is involved is not immediately obvious. As one goes deeper, it does a good job of letting you know what point in the hierarchy you’re at, but a visual cue, a graphical syllabus would be really helpful to get a fuller sense of where each of the necessary resources for a given week are. Now THAT would really help!
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