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Or in short: Having a single, minimalistic hamburger icon doesn't convey enough information to be useful. It may be possible to improve engagement metrics by us
by leepowers 11y ago
Or in short: Having a single, minimalistic hamburger icon doesn't convey enough information to be useful. It may be possible to improve engagement metrics by using informational icons and titles. None of these statements are particularly controversial.
So, should we web developers start ripping out hamburger icons on our sites. NO. Avoid groupthink. Implement and test layouts that produce measurable results. Removing hamburger icons is no panacea. What are the users doing? What does the data say? If cargo cult thinking produced an over-reliance on a single navigation icon, we aren't going to solve anything by snapping back in the other direction.
Also, there's a difference between a hamburger icon and a drawer menu. On mobile devices a drawer menu is still a fantastic way to reveal additional navigation options without a page reload over a (potentially) slow network connection. Stuffing a navigation list into drawer menu is an easy solution. But it may produce poor results.