Breadcrumb Navigation: Further Investigation of Usage
Barbara S. Chaparro, Bonnie Lida Rogers, Barbara S. Chaparro · 2003
In our last issue of Usability News, we reported on the general usage of trails as a method of navigation on web sites (Lida, Hull & Pilcher, 2003). The term derives its name from the Grimm's fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. Hansel left a of breadcrumbs through the woods as a strategy to find his way back home. Since today's internet user often has a need to navigate back through a website path, the cyber-version breadcrumb trail was named1.