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"Sanchez, Mario" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sanchez, Mario
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Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:57:26 -0500
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Tommy Donehower writes:
> 3-tier navigation scheme for a major automotive
> site.

> For example:
> 1) User clicks on "Shop" tab at the tob of the page
> 2) On click "Shop highlights and reveals a horizontal bar
> directly beneath it for sub navigation containing 5
> different models
> 3)User rolls over a model and a third navigation bar
> appears below the model tab revealing the 6 different
> model types.

Since I'm now in the market for a car, I hope I can provide you some timely
feedback as a "user." Looking back at what I've been doing over the past
several days, I've discovered a few separate activities:

1. Comparing models in order to narrow down choices. Comparisons were based
on various factors. I selected about 8 models as acceptable choices.

2. Comparing model types within each model, to narrow choices to a specific
type or a specific set of features and options.

3. Comparing all the above selected model types. To do this, I built myself
a matrix of these various choices so that all the relevant info could be
easily compared, and used that matrix to select my top-3 choices, but at the
same time keep info about the other choices easily accessible.

4. Getting detailed info about the selected models.

Your 3-tier navigation scheme seems well suited for activity #4 above - if
the user already has a specific model type in mind, but I wouldn't find it
helpful for the any of the first three. As a metter of fact, I found that a
notebook, a pen and a highlighter were better tools for getting the info I
wanted than most of the online car-shopping sites (although I definitely
didn't try all of them).

Hope that helps,
ny chance of getting a nice deal as part of my "user feedback?"

Mario Sanchez

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