Re: redundancy -- "That's redundant" is a criticism that never makes much sense to me. This isn't the physical world we're dealing with. Efficiency is not gained through avoidance of redundant page elements. If a title is restated in the nav and the body of the page, I'm not sure how it hurts the user experience.
(This isn't to say that breadcrumbs are helpful/not helpful -- that's a different discussion.) -Anne On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:10 AM, paul bryan <p...@usography.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Anne Hjortshoj | anne...@gmail.com | www.annehj.com | Skype: anne-hj ________________________________________________________________ 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
