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As other commenters have stated, I think that moving headers are distracting, and am quite frustrated that this has become such a pervasive pattern across the i
by hunterhod 6y ago
As other commenters have stated, I think that moving headers are distracting, and am quite frustrated that this has become such a pervasive pattern across the internet. I use the top portion of the viewport to track which line of text I am reading, and having a header flash back and forth makes this difficult.
However, upon mentioning my frustration to a friend in the
digital advertising business, she brought up the point that sticky headers save users from the carpal-tunnel inducing action of scrolling all the way to the top of a site in order to take an action (e.g. sign up for a service).
We landed in the middle ground of debouncing sticky headers, i.e. the user should firmly establish their intent to view the top portion of a site by scrolling in that direction for at least one second.
These thoughts aside, great work and thanks for contributing to the industry!