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Nice snarky response, not sure it's warranted. There are lots of UI design techniques that work great on desktop that don't work at all on mobile, for various r
by flyosity 15y ago
Nice snarky response, not sure it's warranted. There are lots of UI design techniques that work great on desktop that don't work at all on mobile, for various reasons, mostly because there are other interface paradigms that take their place. Dropdown menus are one such paradigm. Typical ways to reorganize this type of design to work on mobile:
1. Show a grid of icons that let you navigate to various parts of the app on a flat hierarchy. Facebook used to do this and now many other apps copied their approach. This nav menu is typically the root view in a navigation hierarchy.
2. Show a tableview where each row shows a different part of the app, you tap to go there. This is also the root view in a nav hierarchy but you can group table rows under headings to essentially get 2-levels showing at once.
Should a dropdown menu creator also make the decision of how to reorganize the dropdowns to work on mobile? No. The decision of how one will display a similar navigational structure on their mobile app is very personal, very rooted to how they currently structure the interface on their mobile app or website.