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Location bread crumbs at a glance

Site Genre: Pattern Group k

magnify imageFigureK6.1 The area at the top of this Web page enclosed by the dashed line shows location bread crumbs, which identify where customers are on the Web site. Bread crumbs also provide a quick way of backtracking to previously viewed pages.

Background

Customers can get lost easily on Web sites, losing track of where they are in relation to other pages on the site.

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PROBLEM

People can easily be derailed from completing a task if the next step is not obvious.

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SOLUTION

magnify image FigureK2.6 Use bread crumbs to show people where they are on the Web site.

Provide bread crumb links that show how to get from the homepage to the current page and back. Use a string of back links and separate them by a pointing (>) character.

Other Patterns to Consider

Use OBVIOUS LINKS (K10) for bread crumbs to make them easy to see and understand. Bread crumbs are usually placed at the top of a page’s GRID LAYOUT (I1). They can interfere with NAVIGATION BARS (K2) that run across the top. In these cases, it is usually better to place the bread crumbs underneath the navigation bar.

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