Do you feel confused right now? Because the page you are viewing has no breadcrumbs. (I know, skewed sample).
Breadcrumbs should be used as a means to reduce ambiguity and/or provide convenient access to higher levels within the organizational structure. You can get a rough feeling for the awareness/utility of your title breadcrumb by the volume of cllickthrough's on the breadcrumb's active links. Depending on the design system and technical execution, page title breadcrumbs can cause some problems. I've been in situations where extra-long title breadcrumbs have crowded out right side page functions, like print or email page, which got pushed down a couple of rows, which in turn pushed meaningful content below the fold. The breadcrumb was detrimental in that case, because the questionable redundancy reduced visibility of meaningful information. I've also seen situations where the breadcrumb title and the page title were slightly different, and that really confused users. Redundancy is not necessarily a bad thing. One person's redundancy is another person's confirmation. If the title breadcrumb is not causing any problems there's no need to spend LOE fixing it. Paul Bryan Usography Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/uxexperts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45266 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
