Users don’t care where they are

Users don’t care where they are posted 24th February 2004

Mark Hurst tell us that users don’t care where they are and that breadcrumbs are nice but irrelevent. Peter Merholz wholeheartedly disagrees and Christina Wodtke provides a little balance to the argument.
Incidentally, Dan Cederholm has posed the question, how best to code breadcrumb trails?

Ryan Parman wrote:

That’s simply not true. I like to know where I am in a site, as it makes the site much easier for me to navigate, duh!

24 Feb 2004, 20:09 GMT

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