Popover API Sliding Nav
Here’s a nifty demo of popover but it’s not for what we’d traditionally consider a modal dialog.
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Bottom Navigation Pattern On Mobile Web Pages: A Better Alternative? — Smashing Magazine
Making the case for moving your navigation to the bottom of the screen on mobile:
Phones are getting bigger, and some parts of the screen are easier to interact with than others. Having the hamburger menu at the top provides too big of an interaction cost, and we have a large number of amazing mobile app designs that utilize the bottom part of the screen. Maybe it’s time for the web design world to start using these ideas on websites as well?
Less… Is More? Apple’s Inconsistent Ellipsis Icons Inspire User Confusion - TidBITS
The ellipsis is the new hamburger.
It’s disappointing that Apple, supposedly a leader in interface design, has resorted to such uninspiring, and I’ll dare say, lazy design in its icons. I don’t claim to be a usability expert, but it seems to me that icons should represent a clear intention, followed by a consistent action.
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links · Bradley Taunt
Another take on the scrolling navigation pattern. However you feel about the implementation details, it’s got to better than the “teenage tidying” method of shoving everything behind a hamburger icon.
An oral history of the hamburger icon (from the people who were there)
From the days of Xerox PARC:
In your garage organization, there’s always a bucket for miscellaneous. You’ve got nuts and bolts and screws and nails, and then, stuff, miscellaneous stuff. That’s kind of what the hamburger menu button was.
Same as it ever was.
A couple of alternatives to the hamburger menu | Kenan Yusuf
Two (similar) patterns for responsive navigation that don’t involve sweeping everything behind a hamburger icon.
When I’ve experimented with auto-overflowing horizontal patterns like this, I’ve found that a judiciously-placed box shadow can give a nice affordance.
The Hamburger Menu Doesn’t Work - Deep Design
Building on Luke’s research, James outlines the problems with hiding navigation behind a hamburger icon. So, to be clear, the problem isn’t with the icon, so much as the way it is used as a cupboard to shovel all our messy navigation issues into.
Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people - BBC News
The controversial hamburger icon goes mainstream with this story on the BBC News site.
It still amazes me that, despite clear data, many designers cling to the belief that the icon by itself is understandable (or that users will “figure it out eventually”). Why the aversion to having a label for the icon?
Hamburger Fancy: Archive
This Tumblr blog has the grandiose ambition of being “a showcase of the hottest hamburger icons on the web”, but amazingly, they’ve actually succeeded in documenting every single example of a cool hamburger icon.