Sorry, but personal opinion and generalities should have no part in this.
Test. Test. Test.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:23 AM, William Hudson <
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> Erica -
>
> I personally would agree with your marketing department, as would
> Amazon, I believe. Global navigation and panels potentially distract
> users from the task in hand. They will end up leaving the process
> without necessarily realizing it and will be very frustrated if they
> then use the browser back button to discover that their data is gone.
>
> Provide just a 'Cancel' button instead.
>
> Regards,
>
> William Hudson
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors (Open Discussion) [mailto:CHI-
> > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Erica Gordon Sorohan
> > Sent: 10 November 2008 21:39
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: invluding navigation on process pages
> >
> > Has anyone had any firsthand experience with, or know of any research
> > conducted on, the effect of including or not including global
> > navigation on process pages...
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