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The "hamburger" button is very strange element. It's often used in panels that slide horizontally, in which case the "grip" is going the wrong way. In my mind,
by nwh 14y ago
The "hamburger" button is very strange element. It's often used in panels that slide horizontally, in which case the "grip" is going the wrong way. In my mind, the button would work in the physical world if it was rotated 90°. I've never been able to find out where it came from through, baring it's first appearance to me in the Facebook iOS app.
- tsunamifury 14y agoYes and no, I did that in my most recent designs, but a touch grip is a skeuomorphic affordance -- which is fine as long as the control bar is always skeuomorphic as well. As you move more into a flat design, the 3 bars as a grip makes less sense.
- potatolicious 14y agoIt may have existed earlier, but the earliest I'm aware of it was in Path - who also invented a couple of other UI bits themselves (background-pan images, for example).
- modfodder 14y agoIt definitely existed much earlier on the desktop. Avid Media Composer, non-linear editing software first brought to market in the late 80s had it. Not sure at what point it was added, but remember referring to the hamburger menu in the mid to late 90s.