As for the bad of hamburger menus: "Adds an additional point of interaction from the user (click to open, then proceed to read through available options)" The

As for the bad of hamburger menus: "Adds an additional point of interaction from the user (click to open, then proceed to read through available options)" The real world impact of this downside cannot be emphasized enough. People click on things they can see by several factors more (sometimes 10 times more) compared to the "clean design" approach. This is why in very large companies there's internal political battles on which links get to be placed in this prime digital real estate. Sausage links is a weird name though. They're horizontally scroll-able menu items, which can be anything: links, icons, pills, combinations. As for this creating an ugly scrollbar on desktop, this pattern is for about 6-8 links max, which should all horizontally fit without a scrollbar on desktop. As for the "problem" of this not supporting longer lists of links or even hierarchical links, don't bother, because those don't work anyway. I work on very large ecommerce sites and in one case (billion+ page views across 80 countries) even a 3 tier navigation structure found only 8% of users actually using it. And the trend is downwards, as mobile traffic is now 70%. Nobody navigates beyond level 1. Finally, some polish for the demo: scroll fading should be stronger so that people get that it is horizontally scrollable. Also, use CSS scroll snapping. This way when people give a strong swipe, it doesn't keep going when you let go, it snaps into a favorable position.