Now there’s a thought: URL as UI

April 1st, 2008 by mark Discuss this article »

Adam Darowski has a very interesting post up on his blog (link) on using the URL as a direct-access user interface. I completely agree with what he’s saying, I use the described way of URL hacking as well to see if I can access other parts of a website, but I’m often foiled by completely unreadable URLs or URLs that rely on code numbers or hashes. A quote:

If people use your site enough, they’ll want an even faster way to reach the content they want. They’re not browsing anymore. They are power users. They know what they want. Give them a nicely hackable URL to do this.

Read the full article here.

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