Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-08-01 Thread gayatri n
Thanks guys, for all the input. Seems like there are questions regarding transaction that is going to take place on the page. This page is simply to read an article and when done reading be able to go back to the results page. When I look at browser back links they are actually icons that

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-07-30 Thread Gayatri N
Thanks a lot guys! The feedback is really helpful. I initially had an informative/descriptive link to the top left of the page, above the article title and someone said users would confuse the Back to Results Page link to be the title of the article. I personally didn't think so because of the

[IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

2009-07-29 Thread Gayatri N
Hello Everyone, I am wondering if using buttons or navigational elements that look like buttons(for e.g BACK link) are intuitive? Let me give you guys some context here: I am working on designing a knowledge base interface where a user can look for articles and click on a particular link to