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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Progress Bar Indicator UX/UI Design & 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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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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Top 10 SaaS Monitoring Tools for DevOps

As a SaaS business, we’re regularly trying new products and tools to help us with DevOps. We recently started to evaluate a lot of different SaaS monitoring tools and wanted to share some of our findings. You’ll find some thoughts about the following tools in this post.

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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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12 best web development blogs you should be reading right now

This article is brought to you by Usersnap – a visual feedback & bug tracking tool, used by software companies like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

Creating software isn’t that easy. There is a ton of things to consider. The more you actually create, the more you’ll learn.

And since there are many developers out there who share their experience, it’s a hard game to follow all of them. Because of this, we collected the following blogs and present you a list of 11 web development blogs worth reading.

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Get started in web development today. Here are 9 basic tips everyone should know.

I have recently published a piece on “what no one tells you about working in web development” in which I shared some insights on how working on web development projects, well, works. Starting out in web development can be quite difficult, but it is a worthwhile adventure if well prepared. Here’s my web development tutorial with 9 useful tips that can help you make your start in web development a smooth one!

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On-Premise vs Cloud Software: A Comprehensive Comparison

Today, businesses have a lot of choices when it comes to data storage. One of these choices is going on-premise vs cloud software to host your data as against just keeping everything within your own network.

In this blog post, I will try to give you a comprehensive overview of on-premise vs cloud software hosting, with a special focus on the topic of security.

Related read: Essential WordPress Plugins For Developers & Designers

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How Tango incorporated user feedback from early-adopters to achieve hyper growth

September 2021 was a spectacular month: Tango was voted #1 Product of the Week on Product Hunt (and later on got recognized as Product of the Year) and acquired more than 10,000 early adopters! It was also the month they started collecting customer feedback with Usersnap. That leads us to this story!

Product of the Year! - Tango Product Hunt

Now, as they say: shall we tango?

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