[IxDA Discuss] locating tabs at the bottom of an application window

[Lisa deBettencourt]

I just want to comment on the "user expectations" and note that this can be
a very western/US-centric view (the research is from a Kansas-based
university and the participants were college students). Culturally, in the
US we are top-down, left-right reading. Other cultures do not have this
method and expect things differently. I'm guessing Michal is in Israel, but
I could be wrong, where there are different cultural norms.

If you're designing for a culturally homogenous audience, you may want to
approach your design for that culture and use those cultural norms. If
you're designing for a more international audience, you'll need to take
other cultural norms into consideration.

Technically, it is clear there are other issues in having bottom-dwelling
tabs.

~Lisa

On 6/1/06, Dmitry Nekrasovski <mail.dmitry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 1) It breaks user expectations of where informational site navigation
> is usually located (i.e. in the top banner or left sidebar). See for
> example Figure 3 in this article:
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> http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/81/webobjects.htm
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