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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 16, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> >                                          A good example are branches.
> > Should the breadcrumb lead through the project or through the user?
>
> An early mockup of the Launchpad 2.0 branch page didn't have any
> hierarchy bar at all, on the grounds that we didn't know which way  
> you'd
> come. :-) But eventually we just picked one and stuck to it.
>
> > Yes and no <wink> depending on context that Launchpad can't know
> > anything about.  I'd love to have a ui solution for that.
> > ...
>
> This question came up in the Nielsen Norman Group usability course I
> took a few weeks ago. The suggestion the instructor gave was along the
> lines of "choose the most likely". But I think most of the sites that
> suggestion was intended for don't have an IA as complex as Launchpad's
> needs to be, where "most likely" usually means "pretty unlikely".

One possible solution, though not an easy one, is to keep track of how  
I actually got there by using some form of click tracking.  If I  
jumped there directly then you would have to pick the "most likely  
one", but if you tracked me from ~barry to my Launchpad branches, then  
the breadcrumbs could reflect that instead.

Another alternative might be to have the intermediate crumb be a pull  
down menu, so when I hover over the projects link I'd see an arrow  
that would expand to show a menu that also included the person.  Or  
you could just list them both vertical, though that might be confusing.

-Barry

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