Abstract:

Along with the widespread of web 20, micro-blog has become an indispensible part of modern people’s life The elaborate design of the micro-blog’s product can improve the users’ experience, but studies on the micro-blog are very few In this paper, some navigation constructions of micro-blog are studied by analyzing the web navigation modes The methods of questionnaires and performance evaluation are adopted and five related experiments are designed for the research The process of operation and subjective evaluation, which was done by 22 undergraduates using the navigation of different micro-blogs and the like products of micro-blogs, is recorded Finally, in-depth interview are done for 8 senior users From the interview, the previous conclusions are checked Based on the above findings, the suggestions of the improvement methods for the navigation and the usage for the function name of micro-blog products are obtained

Key words: micro-blog, web construction, navigation pattern, navigation design