auDA Peter A Clarke PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives Breadcrumbs design pattern The user needs to know his location in the website's hierarchical structure in order to possibly browse back to a higher level in the hierarchy. Use when the structure of the website follows a strict hierarchical structure of similar formatted content. Use when the structure of the site is parted in to sections which can be divided into more subsections and so on Use when the user is most likely to have landed on the page from an external source (another site deep linking to the web page in question). For instance from a blog or a search engine. Use when the page in question is placed fairly deep into the hierarchy of pages and when no other form of visual navigation can show the details of the same deep level. Show the labels of the sections in the hierarchical path that leads to the viewed page. Breadcrumbs show the user where he is now in relation to the site’s hierarchy: how information is structured. From apple.com.
Pagination design pattern The user needs to view a subset of sorted data that is not easily displayed on one page. Use when there is more data than what is comfortably fitted into one screen. Use when the dataset is ordered into amount of interest (that usually means newest first) Do not use when you don’t want the user to pause for navigating to the next page. Break the complete dataset of items into smaller sequential parts and show these on separate sequential pages. Provide pagination control to browse from page to page. Let the user browse to the previous and next pages by providing links to such actions. If the dataset is of defined quantity, also show a link to the last page. First and foremost, pagination parts large datasets into smaller bits that are manageable for the user to read and cope with. Pagination at a standard wordpress blog.
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