In the near future this site will be uploaded with a set of clickable tags. A tag can be anything: a keyword assigned to an image or text source, or a marked word. When a tag occurs more than once, it becomes a menu item. The bigger the tag, the more projects it is linked to. Together the tags create a so-called tag cloud. The point is to create a site that is content-driven: the words used to describe the work define the menu items and the way the users visit the site defines the configuration of the site. In this way the menu is always as big as the scope of the user?s interest.
A few words by Michiel Mobach on this small revolution in interface design:
A few words by Michiel Mobach on this small revolution in interface design: "We are continuously categorizing the world around us. (...) So why is it that categories in site menu's do not work so well? One problem is that everybody works in different ways. Especially when it comes to making categories. If it comes to the point of hierarchies, people are really bad. People not work so systematically. They rather make connections (just as our brain does with different neurons). Menus with sub menus and sub sub are awful for finding pages and hard to control (these cascading ones). (...) You cannot see what is content is about. (...) If you have to make a interaction design for a site you almost always end up with pages that are really hard to categorize."
Solutions to the above could be:
- Avoid making categories
- Keep track of the user and his most visited pages
- Let other people categorize your page(s) (sophie: "content in dialogue!")