Why not eliminate both and use a horizontal navigation? Otherwise, I would eliminate the breadcrumb. (Don't make me think!)
Hugh Griffith User Interface Designer On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Renee Rosen-Wakeford <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Johan, > > I usually argue to include breadcrumb trails, since they don't take up much > space and those who do use them find them useful. Also, they're useful for > very complex sites that have more levels than can be normally displayed at > once in a left hand navigation. > > It doesn't sound like your site has that many levels, so if they duplicate > each other exactly and the site's a fairly simple one, then you can > probably > be OK without them. I just wonder what kind of design treatment they are > getting where they take up 10% of the depth of the screen. Most breadcrumb > trails are designed in a small font and don't really increase the amount of > scrolling. > > As much as I disagree with him on other issues, Nielsen has a pretty good > article about the use of breadcrumbs and why they're good to add: > > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/breadcrumbs.html > > As usual, a lot of what he says is somewhat obvious, but I thought it was > interesting that he said that users were starting to look for breadcrumbs > and that Vista uses them, so users will start to expect them more and more. > > Renée > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > A website has a left navigation and a bread crumb. The left navigation is > > an exact copy of the bread crumb (or the other way around). They both > take > > up valuable real estate on the screen. > > > > My idea would be to do away with the bread crumb because the visitor sees > > at any moment where exactly (s)he is in the website in the left > navigation. > > By eliminating the bread crumb, the amount of "real content" would > increase > > by 10% and people would have to scroll less and less frequently. > > > > Do you guys agree? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Johan > > **** DISCLAIMER **** > > http://www.belgacom.be/maildisclaimer > > ________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Renée Rosen-Wakeford > [email protected] > Twitter: @lilitu93 > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
