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Horizontal and vertical menus in web applications
It is now very common to find top horizontal menus in websites. Some reason of that might be habits and Jakob's law.
In web applications you might find a menu on top or on the left side equally. Most ...
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Measuring Keystroke Against Click Count
Currently working on bettering our internal tool/ticketing system's UI. We have several products - broken up by category, of course. Each product has an email template that a technician will wend in ...
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Why do menu labels behave differently in desktop applications and websites?
In a desktop application when you click a menu, you see all the options which reside within it, in a drop-down/pop-up list.
In many websites with a navigation menu which has sub-categories, I have ...
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Massive menu on website, how to solve it?
I must change the following menu in some web site.
This menu contain almost 30 items!
Screenshot:
Any idea?
Categories:
Home, Games, Leisure Children, Openly Software, Recipes, Study Lessons, ...
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Is the upper-left logo an acceptable place to put a master site nav menu?
For a number of reasons, having a number of main nav dropdown menus in the top bar isn't feasible. I'm considering making a master site navigation dropdown by clicking a down arrow right next to the ...
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In what situation is it best to use a mega menu?
The current site I'm working on typically has 3 levels on navigation. Site-map and navigation has already been done. They have chosen to use a mega menu to show top level navigation items and ...
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Navigation toolbar design
I'm working on a new web page using a navigation toolbar at the top of the screen. There is an employee profile box on the left, certifications (if any for that employee) in the center of the toolbar ...
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What is the name for the horizontal tabs expanding / contracting kind of navigation?
Can somebody tell me if there is a name for this kind of tab navigation implementation?
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Navigation hierarchy: categories next to single items at the top-level
In our new product we have several pages grouped into several categories.
One of those categories is more important than the rest.
Moreover, we have relatively a small number of pages and categories ...
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Side panel navigation default on or off
I'm designing a web app specifically for all tablet traffic.
I'm going with the very popular left side panel navigation like youtube,fb etc.
The icon to open/close the navigation is the standard icon ...
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Responsive Menu that has a LOT of menu items
We have a responsive menu that on mobile just shows the top level menu items (x8), but on desktop also shows hover drop drop downs with service areas within the parent menu item.
The problem is we ...
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Removing main menu on large map page
I have a small map on my page, and want to allow the user to look at a larger version of it if a link is clicked.
On this new page, the map will essentially be full screen, covering everything except ...
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How to best indicate navigation menu on mobile
What's the best way to indicate the navigation menu on mobile?
I see this three-bar icon being used a lot but do users really understand what it means?
Wouldn't a button simply saying "Navigation" ...
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Thoughts on mobile 'matrix' style navigation?
What I mean by 'matrix' style is something along the lines of
But could potentially be a multi-page menu as well (accessed by swiping left or right).
I feel these designs try to mimic the iOS ...
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How shall I display my application version and contact details to the end user
The traditional approach for displaying application information to user is through Menu.
User select Help > About and we display a popup displaying the details.
Is there a better approach doing ...
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Arrows for Navigation/Menu/Expandables Misleading?
When a user visits a site they are presented with some sort of Navigation Structure. Typically the arrow is a standard convention that alerts a user that when this item is clicked an action will ...
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Should we call “Home” something else?
In the main navigation menu of a website, should we call "Home" something else?
I am guessing that from a broad UX perspective, the answer is no -- but when are other names viable? When are they ...
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Navigation with or without sub-navigation?
Considering following site architecture, where each category has multiple products inside it:
/Home
/About
/Products/Category 1
/Products/Category 2
/Products/Category 3
/Products/Category 4
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Side Navigation Arrow Placement Right or Left?
I have been working on a project that involves reconstructing a page side navigation. Throughout the project i've researched current trends in navigation structure and noticed arrow placement on the ...
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User-friendlier dropdowns with hoverIntent?
Is it a good idea to use hoverIntent (which introduces a slight movement-predicted delay to prevent accidental hover-offs) for user-friendlier dropdowns?
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Why choose dark navbars?
Been reading about Google's new dark navbar over at ReadWrite. It's funny that ReadWrite, as well as StackExchange, has chosen a dark navbar as well.
Why this trend to choose dark navbars?
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Placement of edit link beside long title?
I'm working on an web application that is flow-chart like. Each page has a star to "bookmark" the page, a title and below it is the actual flow chart/shapes. The flow area takes up the remaining ...
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Hiding main navigation on secondary pages
What is an effective design to hide/minimize primary navigation to focus the user on secondary navigation, while still providing access to the primary nav?
(rephrased from below to make it more of a ...
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Linking a Navigation menu item to external URL
3 of 7 links on my navigation menu are external links to others websites (same company but other services/not the same domain). Those websites are not the core of the business.
Linking a navigation ...
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Better to use generic verbs or slash-separated specific verbs in navigation?
I'm currently revising a menu that has evolved over time to include lots of generic verbs in menu items. The biggest offender is 'Manage'. Manage Users, Manage Portal. I feel like these don't really ...
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Best approach to designing a long multi-level side menu
I'm currently facing a problem with designing an effective and user-friendly multi-level side menu for a client's ancient website developed in year 2000. This side menu is referred as a table of ...
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Does navigation menu have to mirror the actual page structure in my site?
Can I put items in a navigation menu list, that don't actually mirror the website pages structure ?
e.g. if the pages in the site follow this structure:
Homepage
|--Products
|--Product 1
...
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Training Video Section of website
I'm looking for some help with my training video user experience. http://advantageanywhere.com/advantageUniversity.html
I'm currently working on a training area where the new users of our ...
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Is swapping out the entire Left-Local-Side-Nav a bad idea?
We have a large Website with hundreds of pages. We have a horizontal global navigation, and a left-local-side Nav to navigate through a group of related pages.
As I was browsing clicking down from ...
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What is the difference between a Navigation Bar and Tabs?
Recently I found myself (potentially) discussing the nature of a horizontal/top navigation bar (h-nav-bar) and a tab set without knowing it.
download bmml source – Wireframes created with ...
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How to make navigation bar clear?
I have a website titled 'Ibiza Party People'. I've made 3 buttons like:
Ibiza(About us page)-Party(Photography page)-People (Blog page).
This is a screenshot of how the menu looks like:
I have ...
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Dropdown navigation menus - should top menu option link to content?
I have a client with a group of users which seem to have constant troubles using a menu like these two examples:
Pages (links to a list of pages in a grid from where the user has
access to ...
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Should Navigation menu have a fix position in application with greater width?
I am developing a web app with 1280px width. Planning to keep 1024 for content and remain as Menu with fixed position. On scrolling main content the menu will not scroll.
Will this be a good for ...
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Usability research on sticky headers?
Sticky (or fixed) headers are not so uncommon nowadays, and for a large website that relies heavily on catalog and search functionality it may be a good choice to aid the user.
As I am currently ...
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Is the logo good enough to use as a link back to the main menu for a childrens website?
We have created a fruits and vegetables game for children where they have to choose the correct vegetable in a grid of vegetables.
This is a web based game. In this game, we have a logo at the top of ...
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If a sticky window panel is larger than the screen size, how should I display it?
I have one panel at the right where users can choose search options that is a sticky panel.
However, on different screen sizes etc., if the height of this panel is higher than the screen height not ...
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How to deal with multilevel menus
I trying to design a horisontal menu that sometimes will go three levels down. The thing that drive me crazy is to know if I should show all the levels.
For example:
About us, Products, Contact
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Is it appropriate to use the title attribute in a menu link?
My inclination is towards 'no', because on hovering over the centre of a menu link in Chrome, the display of the title attribute's contents covers the rest of the menu, which provides for a poor ...
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Which of the following options best draws attention to the “buy tickets” action without detracting from the surrounding visual hierarchy?
I'm working on touching up (as much as I'm allowed) some of the design elements for a website. One client requirement is to draw more attention to the "buy tickets" link as this action is one that ...
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Using a TabBar with slide out side menu?
I'm working on designing the layout for an iPhone app which will contain three tabs. I'm trying to eliminate the tab bar if possible, but I'm not sure what my alternatives are.
I'm considering a ...
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Should I reload only those areas of site where data has changed?
I think the rule is: Reload only those areas of site where data has changed. Don't fetch the areas where no changes have been made.
The pros of this rule are:
1. Users will be able to examine ...
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How do you decide which links should be placed in the primary menu?
How do you decide which links should be placed in the primary menu? Should you only link to the pages and areas that get the most traffic? How should you think?
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When is it appropriate to combine “help/support” with “contact us”?
Suppose we have a horizontal menu at the top of our website like this:
products | pricing | help | login | 800-555-1234
When is it appropriate to combine help/support with contact us?
We want to ...
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Please recommend Improvments to the SE Menu Structure
Over at Programmers Meta we are haveing a discussion about the SE Menu Structure. Someone recommend we ask the Pro's over here for recommendations.
So, What could\Should be done to Improve the SE ...
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Global drop-down: Necessary?
I've architected and am now designing a site that has level 2 vertical navigation. It's featured on the upper left corner of all sub-pages EXCEPT for the sub-section "landing" or "main" page because ...
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How to explain to director that a multilevel dropdown menu isn't a good idea
My director and designer want to make a big drop-down menu on our site. Multilevel menu :
| MENU 1 | MENU 2 | MENU 3 | MENU 4 |
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Better to use hover vs. click to display dropdown menus on main navigation of web app?
I work on a web-based medical records system. In the previous version, main horizontal menu employed ExtJS. It used the standard click to display the sub-menu found in ExtJS. I'm considering whether ...
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Are hover menus in headers easy to use?
Do users find it easy to use headers/menus like the one displayed below?
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Horizontal menus, do they scale?
I'm a user of a popular website that uses horizontal menus for navigation. As the site's functionality grows, the number of menu items also grow. As the horizontal space is limited, the design choice ...
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Fixed-position header and menu on a web page — is that okay?
A client of mine is insisting on two things for a website I am designing:
That every single link is shown in the header – about 10 links or so with no sub-categories. ie. no drop-downs, rollovers, ...
