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Horizontal lines (or sometimes an array of dots) are sometimes used as a "grip" icon to represent reorderable list rows.
by tesseract 5y ago
Horizontal lines (or sometimes an array of dots) are sometimes used as a "grip" icon to represent reorderable list rows.
- andai 5y agoI know, I've used them in my own designs. It just sounded like he saw a hamburger menu now for the first time 5 weeks ago! Or maybe it is some kind of joke?
- frereubu 5y agoThis is the case for many people. Another explanation is that he was being empathetic.
- craftinator 5y agoAs a designer himself, he probably tries to approach design examinations from many different perspectives (we do this at work with new designs: if I was an 70 year old woman, what would I see here?) to find edge cases where the design doesn't work.
- djur 5y agoHamburger menu icons usually have a fixed position and are part of a header or something of that sort. Floating lines like that would always read as "drag grip" to me.
- tacotacotaco 5y agoEveryone sees the hamburger icon for the first time. It certainly isn't obvious what it means. You need to decide what is more important, that your site look contemporary or that your users can find the information/product/service they are looking for. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menus/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menus/
- sroussey 5y agoWe have found that people are afraid to mess things up, and don’t know what three lines means, so never click them. A lot more than you would think.
- tomjakubowski 5y agoI don't think I'd seen a hamburger menu rendered on a list, for each item, before. Normally a "hamburger menu" appears once, probably at the top of the page, in some kind of navigation bar. In that context, that icon definitely reads "drag to re-order list item" to me.
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