2008/9/18 Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com:
Although language is a bummer, it was not my main concern, as you pointed out in an earlier mail.
The fact that I can't go straight to "Road signs" from "Road signs in Germany that tell a story" and then down again to "Road signs in France that tell a story" rather than have to go through the whole arborescence up and down again makes no sense to me.
Thanks to CategoryTree (the little "+" before category names, on category pages, that lets you expand the tree without reloading the page), navigating down from a good tree-top is much easier than it used to be.
The trick is figuring out the good tree-top to go to as a starting point, which is not easy because it depends on your goal and you also need to be fairly familiar with the category tree and naming conventions to begin with.
So there are two problems, developers designing an intuitive-yet-all-purpose interface, which is a big ask, and then us plebs actually putting it to use, in a way that is generic enough and precise enough according to the unknown user's desires. Another big ask. :)
cheers Brianna