Mental models/Breadcrumbing
Flow & Navigation

Breadcrumbing

A navigation aid that shows users their location within a hierarchy and the path they took to get there, reducing disorientation and enabling confident exploration.

In plain language

Leaving visible traces of where the user has been, reducing the cognitive load of navigation and making backtracking feel safe.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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