Breadcrumbs for Websites: Best Practices & Examples

This post originally appeared on babich.biz, written by Nick Babich. Nick is a software developer who’s passionate about user experience.

Breadcrumbs (or breadcrumb trail) is a secondary navigation system that shows a user’s location on a site or web app.

The term came from the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale in which the main characters create a trail of breadcrumbs in order to track back to their house.

In this article, we explore the use of breadcrumbs on websites and discuss some best practices for applying breadcrumb trails to your own website or application.

Highly recommended read!

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20 Best Website Feedback Tools in 2023

Working on new design drafts and website prototypes takes a lot of patience and knowledge. When you consider the feedback part of the process, it takes even longer. This is why you need a website feedback tool at your side to get you across the finish line.

Email threads, Slack chats, phone calls, and meetings – that’s how the feedback is collected and managed.

Well, managed? Managing feedback through all these channels is barely possible. But here’s the good news.

We will help you to choose a website feedback tool and set up your design & feedback workflow to make feedback from colleagues and customers actionable and manageable again.

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Improving Progress Bar UX/UI Design Indicators and Feedback Notifications

Visibility of system status is one of the most important rules of UI/UX design.

The goal behind this rule is pretty obvious — to minimize user tension you should provide feedback to the user about what is happening with the app within a reasonable amount of time.

Don’t keep the users guessing — tell the user what’s happening. And one of the most common forms of such feedback is a progress indicator.

In this article, we’ll give you an overview of the main types of the progress tracker indicators and the use cases for them.

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Top 25 Website Feedback Widgets 2023

Imagine a SaaS company that has personally engaged with up to 50% of its users—unprecedented, right?

Well, prepare to be amazed, because at Usersnap, we’ve achieved this remarkable feat using a simple feedback widget for websites, apps, and products. In fact, over half of our customers have eagerly shared their feedback through our widget, and our power users consistently contribute 2-5 feedback items every quarter without any prompting.

In this article, you will check the updated list of tools what are offering those widgets and you will also understand how this little thing can be added to your web or mobile applications.

For a SaaS product to grow and stay relevant (or any company’s growth, for that matter), you need to have a constant stream of customer feedback on the website and in-app.

However, it’s way easier said than done. We will share with you how you can set up interactive widgets on websites and how to increase engagement for feedback sections on websites.

By the end of this read, you will be ready to create a feedback button with a template.

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Web application testing: 6-step guide how to test a website

More and more web applications are being developed these days. And with each line of code being written, the potential for bugs arises.

Generally speaking, the costs of fixing bugs increase exponentially the later you find them.

The Systems Sciences Institute at IBM found that “the cost to fix an error found after product release was 4 to 5 times more than one uncovered during design, and up to 100 times more than one identified in the maintenance phase”.

And a study by the University of Cambridge found that software bugs cause economic damage of $312 billion per year worldwide

These numbers highlight the importance of finding bugs as early as possible and thoroughly testing an application before it is released.

That is where website application testing comes in.

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22 Best Chrome Extensions for Developers in 2023

Some time ago, we reviewed the new Firefox browser designed for developers.

Since then, most of our developers kept Google Chrome as their primary browser.

Working with Chrome offers access to an immense repository of the best Chrome extensions for developers, web services, and tools which makes our daily tasks less of a chore.

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Trello Integration: improve Trello cards with user feedback

Trello is a fast, easy way to organize anything, from your day-to-day work, to a favorite side project. Because of Trello integrations, it’s everywhere – on Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows 8 Tablet, and your web browser, making collaboration easier.

Usersnap integrates well with Trello, assisting you in collecting and discussing feedback between developers, customers and quality assurance engineers. Let’s see how.

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User behavior analytics for SaaS: best tips and examples for 2023

User behavior analytics are part of the puzzle for a SaaS company’s success. They unlock the insights, both said and unsaid, by customers, and create better product decisions for customers over time.

Ever so often, a morning for a SaaS product manager could look like this: 

  1. Grab a stimulating morning beverage (I like coffee myself)
  2. Check the customer feedback received
  3. Monitor customer support tickets
  4. Look at the roadmap
  5. Dig deeper into heatmaps and user behavior analytics
  6. Align with colleagues on what to build next

All of this seems great on paper, but in practice, this gets tricky. Why? Did you ever find yourself in a “paralysis by analysis” situation? If so, there’s too much information to make sense of it, and now you’re blocked from moving forward.

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