3 ms·
Nice, skipped the headline yesterday. Today this blows up with >200 comments and I thought the article must be about how fast food chains rip people off. Time t
by moritzwarhier 3y ago
Nice, skipped the headline yesterday. Today this blows up with >200 comments and I thought the article must be about how fast food chains rip people off. Time to go outside.
To contribute something: I feel that some more refined approaches of dealing with limited space are emerging. Also I see less and less collapse-hamburger-hell on desktop, where the space is actually available in the plenty.
There is one problem that is not solvable by technology: invest a lot of time, energy and expertise into organizing your content to make digestible pieces. Especially regarding how many subpages you have, their name etc.
I also feel that multi-level mega menus are on their way out, making room for more thoughtful forms of site organization.
There will always be tradeoffs. You cannot show all content at once (or you shouldn't).
But indeed, less pages with more content on them, landing pages instead of multi-level navigation, both can help to clean up a sitemap.
Then show your most important pages immediately, if you have too many, make each of them a "landing page".
For menus in web applications (not just websites) with lots of actions, plenty of alternatives to the hamburger exist. E.g. horizontally scrollable menu bars with "..." instead of the hamburger.
Or just lists of links and buttons. Design them in a nice way, then there's no need to hide them.