Thursday, January 8, 2015

usability - When do users understand that a wizard navigation bar is clickable?


In my web application, I use a wizard navigation bar like the one in the image:


example of a wizard navigation bar



While getting feedback from a fellow designer, he asked me if the progress bar is clickable. In my mind, most wizard navigation bars are clickable. Is there any good practice for making sure that users know that wizard navigation bars are clickable? Is there any research about it? Do you have any suggestions on the current design to make it understandable to the user that they can click on the wizard navigation bar?


FYI, I am also using a button navigation on the bottom of the screen, as appears in the next picture:


bottom navigation


I added some more ideas on the wizard navigation bar:


Other ideas



Answer



Going off Simon Richter's answer and O. R. Mapper's comment, what about something that looks sort of tab-like to help indicate it's clickable, but has an arrow shape communicating the flow of the wizard steps?


Rough ugly example:directional tabs


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