Multiple ways of accessing content

david broschinsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.chi-web
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Having spent several years on both sides of the fence (designing web and 
windows UI), I have rarely had a reason to design a straight web 
interface. Everything that was done by the win32 client, we usually 
mimicked to a degree in the web client.

Now that I am working on a straight web interface for the first time, I 
find myself asking if it's necessary or even wise to provide multiple 
paths to the same content.  I imagine the answer can of course be "it 
depends".  In the Win32 world, it was originally thought providing 
different ways to
the same content allows different types of users to discover it the way 
they might be thinking of it.

On the web is this the case?  Early on I know that there was much to do 
made about creating mental maps of the web site/app but does that make 
sense for an web-based application?

Thanks in advance for any help

Dave Broschinsky
[email protected]


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