hello, I can see your point of saving pixels. I have been in situations where the clients want to pack in so much and also don't want to have a scroll. the way content can be laid out can help to deal with the real estate issue. you can work with your design team on that.
however there are discussion about merits of breadcrumbs. Usability tests have revealed that breadcrumbs are not observed by novice users. while once a user becomes aware of them then it helps in navigating back and forward efficiently. However if it is a complex site and has deep navigation is it going to list all the steps can be the next questions. given the users have become lazy due to evolution in search the whole idea of browsing through a site is gone for a toss. the issues that need consideration would be are all your pages read by the search engine. what happens if a user comes to the page using google/yahoo search...what path are you going to show in the bread crumbs. if you are using ajax you need to be careful that a page may not be indexed by the search engines. Given the whole picture of a product requirement, a careful compromise is required. Make a decision based on the complete requirement. may be tomorrow you would need a div that opens up and contains information for a logged in user. there are ways to design clear navigation. Apart from placement left, top, or right you can consider grouping, color associations, shallow architecture, interaction behaviors loaded based on context like the softkeys in a mobile phone and so on. thanks, Ram On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:10 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
