Questions tagged [breadcrumbs]
"Breadcrumbs" or "breadcrumb trail" is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs or documents.
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How would you test horizontal breadcrumbs vs vertical, hierarchical ones?
What test protocol would you suggest for discovering whether users find one of the two options as more efficient for navigation: Also (1): considering option 2, different visual representation ...
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How do you create effective breadcrumbs for joint paths?
Consider this real scenario: There is a list of products Products can be categorized There is a list of customers An operator can create an order for a customer The operator can add multiple products ...
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Breadcrumb and Page title for multiway accessible pages
I couldn't find a proper solution and need your advice. In my system, there are many pages that users can work on. A page can be accessible in three different ways. For example, we have a page called ...
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How to best handle many breadcrumbs with overflow menu
We have a well-developed breadcrumbs component in the design system. Its logic is that breadcrumbs containing more than 5 elements are reduced and a drop-down menu appears. Currently, we show the ...
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Can the current page in a breadcrumb be considered disabled, allowing it to not meet contrast requirements?
Our UX and design teams were discussing breadcrumbs, and if the current page is considered a "disabled" element. We already style the current page so it is obviously not linked, like the out-...
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How to approach breadcrumb structure for non-existent page in hierarchy?
I'm trying to assess the options for creating a breadcrumb component for app that I'm working on. The thing that I'm finding tricky is that the structure of the navigation of the site uses dropdown ...
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Custom back button vs multiple user paths
I'm working on a Hotel chain website that has custom back buttons on their hotel pages. The back button takes users to the previous level in the navigation. E.g: A user in "Hotel page" ...
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Users are not figuring out that they can use breadcrumb to navigate to go to the previous page
[ This is the screenshot of the breadcrumb navigation where users face issue,
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Breadcrumbs in account - necessary?
I absolutely understand the need for breadcrumbs and have found them to definitely improve e-comm performance, however I am struggling how much I need in account settings. As the only parents links ...
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Is it ok to show all the subsections in a breadcrumb navbar?
I have the following hierarchy Home Page -> Tools ->-> Campaign Editor ->-> Scheduling ->-> Packs -> Analytics ->-> User ->-> Campaigns ->-> Packs Is it ok to ...
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Icon or text for "home" in a breadcrumb?
What is a better way to convey the home position in a breadcrumb - "home" as text or an icon representing a home? An argument for the sake of an icon would be that a picture is easier to ...
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How to deal with jumps in a navigation flow?
Say you have features A and B with following pages: A: List -> Detail -> Edit B: List -> Detail -> Edit On page Edit (B) you have a dropdown to select a record of type A. You might want ...
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Breadcrumbs with action menu - what are the best practices?
I am curious about best practices for visualizing additional actions in breadrumbs. Details: the user should be able to copy the IDs of the elements from the breadcrumbs. Is it a good way to add such ...
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Can we use the breadcrumbs just like pagination where a user can go back and forth between the pages?
I want the user to be able to go back and forth on any of these pages. And this is all pdf pages, and the important thing is the hierarchy. In the sales order we are informing how much we will charge ...
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Editable name in a breadcrumb
I am searching for use cases that provides the user to edit the name of an asset in line, when is part of a breadcrumb. Is that case exist somewhere? (Saas) please mention the brand so i can have a ...