[IxDA Discuss] Distinguishing between Internal and External links

[Peter Boersma]

Paige,

You ended with:
> But I have heard many arguments against this--mostly in the form that it interferes with the
> visual design of the site.

That's
(1) a very limited view by visual designers (do HTML form elements also interfere with the visual design of the site? Should we lose those as well? How about hyperlinks themselves? etc.) and 
(2) an argument that could be fixed by visual designers themselves: you should be able to work with them on a visual design of the distinguishing element itself to reach a satisfactory solution that matches both the functional and visual design.

I'd like to hear the other arguments though. Are they about users and their ability to discern the difference by themselves?

Peter
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Peter Boersma | Senior Interaction Designer | Info.nl
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