Hi. This is how the "breadcrumbs" for the file explorer in vista works. I have no studies for you on this though but wanted to point out a current usage of the concept.
regards --- Håkan Reis Dotway AB +46(768)510033 My blog || http://blog.reis.se My company || http://dotway.se Our conference || http://oredev.org - See you in 2008 On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 13:49, Milan Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for examples and studies on cascading navigation concepts > on web sites, using columns to separate the hierarchical layers. Such a > navigation combines a "breadcrumbs" / "path" with a menu. > > > Example (with a monospaced font): > > About us >> Intranets >> Employee Portals >> Overview > Services >> Extranets >> »Customer Portals >> »Technical Data > »Solutions >> »Portals >> Process Portals >> > Mobile >> > > > So the (breadcrumbs) path in this would be > Solutions > Portals > Customer Portals > Technical Data > with the alternative options still visible for each selected layer > > I found the pattern in just one library, at welie.com: > http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=trail-menu > > > Personally I like this concept, but there aren't much sites using it. > I found only one study form a German student implying it performs very > well compared to other (dropdown, tree, ...) concepts in terms of > clarity. > > But it could also turn out as misleading if the users do not understand > the "layering" concept. > > Do you know sites using this kind of menu design, or (even better) other > resources about its performance? > > thx in advance, > milan > > -- > milan guenther * interaction design > ||| | | |||| || |||||||| | || | || > > +49 173 285 66 89 * www.guenther.cx > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
