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Challenges(a) Create a trail of breadcrumbs to show the users where they are.. The current page has no heading at the top, but the topic seems to be the benefits of business process re-engineering (BPR). To get here, the user started on the home page, and chose Solutions, then Re-Organization, then Business Process Re-engineering, then Benefits. On the home page, in addition to Solutions, your company offers Products, White Papers, Alliances, Press, Investors, and Search. Within Solutions, the options are Manufacturing, Finance, Construction, and Re-Organization. Within Re-Organization, the options are Global Initiatives, Vertical Structures, Departmental Upgrades, and Business Process Re-Engineering. Within the Business Process Re-Engineering page, there are options for Benefits, Case Study: Rio Enterprise, Case Study: CitiCorp, Case Study: AT&T, Planning, Designing, Implementing, Maintaining, and Upgrading. Answer => |
Answers (a) Solutions > ReOrganizing > BPR > Benefits
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Create a trail of breadcrumbs to show users where they are on the Nuclear Waste Disposal site. On the home page, users can choose to go to pages about the melting curve of plutonium, recovering plutonium, recovering actinides and toxic metals from various process streams, and developing sensors for monitoring special nuclear materials. If someone chooses to find out about the melting curve of plutonium, a submenu appears offering an overview, a description of the Diamond Anvil Cell (DAC) apparatus, the improved laser-heated DAC, using the DAC to model implosion devices, improving the precision of measurements, and summarizing the results of the much improved understanding of implosion processes. The current page spins off this last one, and describes the better prediction of device performance, available now because of these improved high-temperature and high-pressure measurements. Answer => |
(b) Home> Melt curve > Results > Implosion Processes: Improved Measurements |
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Don't make me use this ax on your menu!
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Other ways to make your menus meaningful: 6a. Think of a heading as an object you reuse many times. 6b. Write each menu so it offers a meaningful structure. 6c. Offer multiple routes to the same information. 6d. Write and display several levels at once. 6e. When users arrive at the target, make it obvious. 6f. Confirm the location by showing its position in the hierarchy. Resources on menus Heuristic Online Text (H. O. T.) Evaluation of Menus
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