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Designers like the hamburger because it lets them sweep anything they haven't considered under the rug. They're simple so no one attempts to cram in carousels
by jayd16 5y ago
Designers like the hamburger because it lets them sweep anything they haven't considered under the rug. They're simple so no one attempts to cram in carousels or videos or what have you, so its the easiest way to add functionality into an app that doesn't have any other thought put into expanding the navigation. So in that sense they're highly productive.
- tshaddox 5y ago> Designers like the hamburger because it lets them sweep anything they haven't considered under the rug. Aren't you just describing all collapsible menus? I thought the complaint about the hamburger menu was specifically that the icon is unclear. It seems odd to disparage all collapsible menus, particularly on mobile where it's very easy to have a small number of reasonable menu options with no way to possible fit them onto the screen without a way to collapse them.
- johannes1234321 5y agoOther collapsible menus need a name of some sort and then can only take things /somewhat/ related to that name. The "Hamburger" can take anything.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoThis is one of the things I dislike most about hamburger menus: they're effectively junk drawers than can contain anything and everything and are painful to try to search through. Just about every prior type of navigation is better.
- prawn 5y agoI design and I don't like them, but clients insist on them against my advice over and over. Clients routinely take informative sites and want to pare it back to minimal information, because they don't like having to write text or maintain anything. Or hide navigation because it feels like cleaning up. You'd be amazed at the ridiculous things they insist on even when there is logical or industry best/decent-practice suggesting otherwise. It's very frustrating.