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tracking specs and functions for portal design and build
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Breadcrumbs #49

Open MomoMoses opened 3 years ago

MomoMoses commented 3 years ago

Breadcrumbs

Always helpful. Front end code I guess -- helps orient the user and to provide a quick navigation tool back.

MomoMoses commented 3 years ago

@johnjung happy to have these coded in as simple a way as possible. feel free to run it by me if you have equivalent options to choose from.

MomoMoses commented 3 years ago

Could be users don't use this much any more. Check with user testing or available public reports in the field. Retaining a browse/page visit history could be sufficient, along with providing multiple ways to get to and back to any page from any other page. Narrowing searches or browses should stay on the same page anyway.

MomoMoses commented 3 years ago

Further reading shows breadcrumbs as a pretty cheap way to help orient the user wherever a search engine may dump them in the Portal site as a whole. One caveat is for mobile: if the paths get too long or the names for pages are long, the "crumbs" list takes up too much space on the small screen. NN says: "a single breadcrumb pointing up a level may be all that is necessary to support the main user goals," but for desktop always display the full path. Never make the last breadcrumb a link--it's where you already are!

MomoMoses commented 3 years ago

Let's try it in a simple implementation where the crumbs are like the directory structure -- URL broken into pieces.