{"id":150,"date":"2015-01-18T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2015-01-19T12:50:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:50:54","slug":"breadcrumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/breadcrumbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Breadcrumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Definition:\u00a0<\/strong>A type of secondary navigation used for way-finding in order to reveal the user's location within a website or application. Breadcrumbs prove to be especially helpful when landing on a page out of context or not arriving initially through a homepage.<a data-rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-17-at-11.47.21-PM2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-153\" src=\"http:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-17-at-11.47.21-PM2-300x106.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-17 at 11.47.21 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-17-at-11.47.21-PM2-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-17-at-11.47.21-PM2.png 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:\u00a0<\/strong>Breadcrumbs are seen and used most often on large websites full of copious amounts of information, like e-commerce sites.\u00a0However, it seems that the trend for breadcrumbs may be\u00a0fading fast and the pattern is not as strong or significant as it was, say, three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to keep an eye out for such trends because, like in\u00a0any other constantly and evolving field, patterns go in and out of style. I mentioned it here because it is an important term to know and understand when discussing way-finding and navigational context even if the pattern may not be as widely used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:\u00a0<\/strong>What do you think; are breadcrumbs still an impactful and\/or a relevant UI pattern?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition:\u00a0A type of secondary navigation used for way-finding in order to reveal the user&#8217;s location within a website or application. Breadcrumbs prove to be especially helpful when landing on a page out of context or not arriving initially through a homepage. Thought:\u00a0Breadcrumbs are seen and used most often on large websites full of copious amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,23],"tags":[42,43,8,9,44],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iconography","category-terms","category-user-interface","tag-breadcrumbs","tag-navigation","tag-user-experience","tag-ux","tag-way-finding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannahatkin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}