Okay second go around. Fixed the Font issues, added a few small elements. I'ma bit iffy about the links as a brighter blue or an underline muddies the text and makes it harder to read. It's a design point that I know folks debate on. But the UX research I've seen suggests the blue and the underline are essential parts of current understanding.
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@drakenhart Blue and underline are *usual*, which I consider different from *essential*. As long as people understand where they can click, it does not need to be blue or underlined. For instance, it could just be slightly bolder text and/or with an arrow or arrow head (e.g. "illustration ▶" or "illustration ➟"...)
Yeah. I did a project that had a good bit of user testing to it and we found the same conclusions.
But I'm also hovering over whether to make the list a card that links to a sub page, or let the links stand.
I'd say just make sure that if you show something that looks like a menu, then it works like a menu.
E.g. if a front page has frames, each showing a list of sub-page names, then I expect clicking a name to lead me to its sub-page; and if the front-page has frames each sporting a paragraph containing sub-page names but not presenting them as a list, then I expect clicking anywhere on a frame to lead me to an intermediate page with individual sub-page links.
HTH
@aaribaud Fair point! Thanks you!! :)
@drakenhart I like the lighter blue! Accent-colored links can be very helpful to users trying to navigate a site because it makes it easier to ID where they can go.
I habitually design my site styles with CSS, so I often leave off the underline in the base link state and then I set them to underline when you mouseover the link text. Sometimes I'll have it change to a brighter version of the link color, too, but all of that's just stuff I like personally. ;)
@levitea That's what I generally do. But during testing on a site I was contracted for, we found through usability testing that sometimes the more "artistic" style can be confusing too. So my "graphic design" and "usability" nerd sides are clashing on how to solve this one. ^.^
I appreciate the input. It gives me something to mull over. As it's also an issue for the desktop version menu bar too. <3 <3
I could just make those three items cards.... and let them go to a sub page. But I'm also aware of the cognitive load that first sub-page could draw on folks.