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Regolith  ·  3153 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work

That's a really fine argument; that people gloss over the 'Buger when sniffing for navigation cues was particularly compelling. Up until now I accepted the Hamburger Menu as a necessary design compromise to make a mobile experience work well, and thought people would just get use to it with sufficient adoption like people got used to the Start Menu. But it is an ugly, unintuitive abstraction, and one of the worst compromises to solve the mobile UI navigation problem; designers can and should do better.

It makes me wonder whether we should be looking at the more novel ways in which mobile users can interface–like gestures, or movement input–that can be a pretty intuitive and totally invisible solution, if only some well designed, codified and broadly adopted design language was used.





OftenBen  ·  3153 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Regolith  ·  3153 days ago  ·  link  ·  

While I agree with the sentiment of ol' 927, for a standard to be adopted it must first exist. 927 didn't stop the Hamburger (One of the weirder statements I've made)