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> hamburger menus are the junk drawers of software Love this metaphor. Hiding the main nav behind a generic button always gives me the impression that the desi
by phforms 3y ago
> hamburger menus are the junk drawers of software
Love this metaphor. Hiding the main nav behind a generic button always gives me the impression that the designers don’t really see it as an important part of the website. Imagine you’d have to open up an unlabeled closet to find the navigation signs in a public building that actually show you what is where. Or if the table of contents in a book was hidden inside the folded cover.
I can see the problem with space and touch target size on mobile and don’t really have a better solution for that (maybe call the button “menu” instead and limit the number of top-level items like you would in a “proper” nav), but I hate to see hamburger icons on desktop screens.
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>Hiding the main nav behind a generic button always gives me the impression that the designers don’t really see it as an important part of the website. Or the engineers are in a situation which requires having non-engineers making engineering decisions.