URL as UI (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)https://www.nngroup.com/articles/url-as-ui/
NN / Group - Nielsen Norman Group
Evidence-Based User Experience Research, Training, and Consulting
The URL will continue to be part of the Web user interface for several more years, so a usable site requires:
- a domain name that is easy to remember and easy to spell
- short URLs
- easy-to-type URLs
- URLs that visualize the site structure
- URLs that are " hackable " to allow users to move to higher levels of the information architecture by hacking off the end of the URL
- persistent URLs that don't change