CIF : Overview : Why are CIF pages so short and simple?

The CIF system was developed to deal with the special case of event-driven education in which a user is surfing the web to look for information on a specific topic. Studies of user interaction with web sites consistently show that this transaction-oriented relationship with information must be brief, concise, and immediately clear in order to hold the user's attention. Individual CIF pages are somewhat like the answers to individual questions which are often seen in FAQ format on the net. A well-designed FAQ has anticipated the most common questions which will be asked and has chunked-down the responses to be very targeted to specific information needs. CIF-compliant pages do the same thing but with a random-access presentation paradigm. Many FAQs can be converted to CIF format with little effort.

Why are CIF pages so short and simple?

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