1. 1 Exercise  In the following slides are shown screenshots from an online bookstore that is using faceted navigation.  In our opinion, this site makes many strong choices  However, there are at least 3 poor design decisions, from our perspective.  Can you spot them? Screenshots taken from browse.barnesandnoble.com, Feb 2, 2006

2. 2 Start with General Browse Select Nonfiction (not shown)

3. 3 Narrow within Nonfiction

4. 4 Narrow within Politics

5. 5 Narrow within Public Affairs

6. 6 The resulting screen Scroll down to see more choices

7. 7 Scroll down to see more choices Select within these

8. 8 Narrow again on another facet

9. 9 Now broaden out.

10. 10 Scroll down to see more facet choices Select one

11. 11 Now Narrow by an existing facet (within Politics & Government)

12. 12 Now want to search within these

13. 13 Results of the Search

14. 14 How can this design be improved?