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Is it just me or do the three dots on the lower left do the same thing as the hamburger menu at the top?
by joenathan 11y ago
Is it just me or do the three dots on the lower left do the same thing as the hamburger menu at the top?
- linkydinkandyou 11y agoIt looks exactly the same for me, too.
- gomox 11y agoIt's just the UX guys at Google acknowledging this article from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036061 Namely, Joe-the-user can't see the hamburger menu at the top and looks for more tools where they are supposed to be: after the first few tools. So the UX guys at Google put an affordance there for him [0]. I've seen this quite a few times, especially for interactions where the search box is within the hamburger-driven overlay. Some sites/systems add a dummy, redundant search box on the main UI that just opens the hamburger menu and focuses on the newly-displayed search box. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
- calinet6 11y agoSure it's important that people grok that there's more stuff, but for pete's sake, pick one affordance. That just looks as clunky and indecisive as a drawer with both a knob and a handle.