Your website navigation is one of the most crucial parts of your overall design. Not only is it used to help visitors orientate themselves in your digital space, but it can also affect everything from your conversion rate to your bounce rate.
The Hamburger Menu Is Stupid and Worth Killing
If you don’t know what the “hamburger menu” is, it’s a mobile app design icon used to indicate the presence of a hidden menu. The familiar icon includes three horizontal lines of equal length stacked on top of each other, representing an abstracted, flattened hamburger in its most basic elements. Its cutesy name has stuck […]
Building Effective Navigation Menus
Designing effective navigation menus should be a core competency of any decent web designer. A good navigation menu will be short, well-organized, sufficiently descriptive and effective at corralling user intent. There no secret recipe involved: it comes down to empathy for the user and understanding of their intentions.
38 Free Open Source CSS Dropdown Navigation Menus
Constructing a website from scratch has become easier and less stressful over these past few years. I find myself ripping out fewer and fewer hairs as more open source projects become available. One of the most common UI elements would be a dropdown menu for multi-tier navigation. In the past I’ve written about coding a […]
33 Freebie PSDs for Website Menus and Navigation Bars
Most designers are familiar with the huge collection of freebies released every week. Graphics designers are more than happy to share PSD or AI files related to interfaces, icon sets, buttons, and other website elements. I’ve put together this selection of free PSDs with some amazing menus and navigation items. If you’re designing a mockup […]
Navigating the Navigation: Designs for the Innovative
Content is essential to a web site’s success, but it’s not the first thing that visitors see. A site’s visual design is an extremely important factor that can determine visitor retention and loyalty; a poor design will make it forever difficult to attain a reader base. As a short case study, consider the differences between […]
