At 11:26 PM 2/11/2006, Terrence Wood wrote:
the page reloads with a set of breadcrumbs that spells out the history
Essentially you are repeating information already available through
the browser history, and it still doesn't inform the user that there
is a new menu if that is your goal. Also, breadcrumbs are most
commonly links to parent directories in the site hierarchy, so there
may be some issues here - you might need to test it with real users.
Perhaps I shouldn't have used the standardized term
"breadcrumbs." What I meant was a sequential list of nested menu
selections, NOT necessarily the same as the browser history. For
example, while drilling down in a nested menu I might digress to a
side-page then continue drilling down. The menu "breadcrumbs" I'm
suggesting would not reflect that horizontal digression but only the
vertical descent in order to convey the user's position in the nested
menu structure.
I recommend reading Hudson, Weakley and Miller's work on source
order and structural labels:
http://www.usability.com.au/resources/source-order.cfm
Thanks, Terrence.
Paul
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