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101 UX Principles – 2nd edition - Second Edition

You're reading from  101 UX Principles – 2nd edition - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234885
Pages 454 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Will Grant Will Grant
Profile icon Will Grant

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface
1. UX Field 2. Typography 3. Controls 4. Content 5. Navigation 6. Iconography 7. Input 8. Forms 9. User Data 10. Progress 11. Accessible Design 12. Journeys and State 13. Terminology 14. Expectations 15. UX Philosophy 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Use Breadcrumb Navigation

Breadcrumb navigation is not the sexiest of UI components, but it’s a long-standing, tried-and-tested control that your users will turn to again and again. An example of breadcrumb navigation is as follows:

Home > Products > Apparel > Hoodies

Websites and apps on the desktop and tablet (and often mobile) can fit a small and unobtrusive breadcrumb into their UI with ease. They are commonly well understood by users in testing and real-world use.

The breadcrumb allows your user to see their position in the system and easily return to a previous level of the hierarchy. What’s more, by displaying the path the user took to get to their current location, breadcrumb navigation helps the user to form a better mental model of the layout of the product.

Increasingly, in the world of single-page JavaScript apps, we’re seeing breadcrumbs overlooked in the design phase, perhaps because they’re seen as boring (they’...

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