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The NavigationTreasure Trove:
Navigation can make or break the user experience on a website. If users can’t find what they’re looking for—or if they can’t use the menu—they’re likely to get frustrated and give up on the site.
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Check out the following video example of a user struggling with an unwieldy navigation experience...
Introduction
Introduction
Frustrating site navigation means you’re missing out on an opportunity to delight your customers.
Delighted customers means:
Multiple Purchases Positive Reviews Brand Advocacy
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If you’re interested in improving your navigation usability, here are 37 resources to help you create a great experience for your users.
Sections:• General Menu Usability• Mobile Menu Usability• Testing & Analytics• Books• Courses & Presentations• Design Inspiration• Code and Tutorials
General Menu Usability
Five Expert Tips for Improving Your Navigation Menu
General Menu Usability
This article gives a great overview of some common-sense (but often under used) guidelines for menu design. Learn what experts say about menu placement, use of visual information, and more.
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Why Hover Menus Do Users More Harm than Good
General Menu Usability
Many well-intentioned websites use drop-down menus that expand when the user hovers over them. This article explains why this tends to cause frustration and confusion.
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Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
General Menu Usability
Drop-down menus get a lot of criticism for hindering usability, but sometimes they’re the best option. These tips will show you how to use drop-down menus for good, not evil.
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General Menu Usability
Sticky Menus Are Quicker to Navigate
General Menu Usability
“Sticky” or fixed navigation menus can make a huge difference in a website’s usability. This post shows the pros and cons of switching to a sticky menu, along with some surprising statistics.
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Hold the Hamburger
General Menu Usability
More and more websites are using the “hamburger” (the ubiquitous three-line symbol for a menu) to save space on the screen, but hiding the navigation options isn’t always the best idea — especially for a desktop site.Read More »
Mega-Menus Gone Wrong
General Menu Usability
Large drop-down menus can easily fall into the trap of giving the user too many options or presenting the options in a confusing way. This article shows you what not to do if you’re using a drop-down menu.
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UX Flows: Navigation
General Menu Usability
This post discusses navigation from a UX designer’s perspective and shows some creative alternatives to the traditional drop-down menu.
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Top Navigation vs. Left Navigation: Which Works Better?
General Menu Usability
Not sure of the best location for your nav bar? Learn about scanning, visibility, and priority to decide which option is best for your site.
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Designing a Winning Navigation Menu: Ideas and Inspirations
General Menu Usability
Browse through this collection of best practices, resources, and examples to get inspired to create a highly usable menu.
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What Really Matters in Navigation Bar Usability
General Menu Usability
Take a look at the results from these real-life nav menu A/B tests. You might be surprised at what a difference a small change in copy or functionality can make.
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Mobile Menu Usability
Best Practices for Navigation on the Mobile Web
Mobile Menu Usability
With mobile web traffic continuing to rise, creating a usable mobile experience is more important than ever. This article gives some basic guidelines on building menus for the small screen.
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Responsive Design Menus: Problems and Proposals
Mobile Menu Usability
Responsive design is a popular way to make a website work on multiple devices, but creating an effective menu within your responsive site can be a big challenge. Here are some ideas for building a responsive menu that works.
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11 Ways to Improve the Navigation on Your Mobile Site
Mobile Menu Usability
For e-commerce sites, a bad mobile experience equals a loss of sales. From one-click checkout to the 44×44 rule for links and buttons, this is a list of things retailers can do right now to make their mobile navigation more usable.Read More »
Mobile Navigation Menus and Great User Experience
Mobile Menu Usability
This article shows how to make good use of the limited space on a mobile screen without confusing users. It also includes some user-friendly alternatives to the “hamburger” navigation symbol.
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Mobile Menu A/B Tested: Hamburger Not the Best Choice?
Mobile Menu Usability
What does mobile menu usability have to do with quantum physics? And is it better to use an icon or a word to label the menu? Find out in this post.
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Responsive Menus: Enhancing Navigation on Mobile Websites
Mobile Menu Usability
There’s more to mobile design than layout and speed. This article takes a deep dive into improving navigation — code included!
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Designing Your Menus for Optimal Usability
Mobile Menu Usability
If you’re looking to improve the menu on your app, you’ve come to the right place. This post gives pointers on designing menus for mobile game apps.
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UX Designers: Side Drawer Navigation Could Be Costing You Half Your User Engagement
Mobile Menu Usability
The co-founder of TV app Zeebox shares the surprising result of what happened when his app switched from a top navigation to a hidden side drawer alternative.
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Testing and Analytics
Tree Testing for Effective Navigation
Testing and Analytics
Tree testing is a great way to test your site structure. This article explains tree testing, using a company intranet as an example.
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Using Card Sorting to Test Information Architecture
Card sorting allows you to find out how users would naturally expect a site to be organized. Learn when, why, and how to use this method of testing.
Testing and Analytics
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Optimal Workshop
Optimal Workshop offers tools for tree testing and card sorting. There are even free plans for folks who want to do smaller studies.
Testing and Analytics
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Books
Designing Web Navigationby James Kalbach
Books
This widely-respected bestseller discusses design principles, development techniques, and real examples for creating a usable navigation experience.
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Card Sortingby Donna Spencer
Books
This book takes an in-depth look at how to run a card sorting test, from planning the study to analyzing the results.
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Courses and Presentations
Organizing Mobile Web Experiences
Courses and Presentations
Popular presenter Luke W. shows you realistic solutions for organizing your site’s navigation on a mobile screen.
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Website Navigation – How to Get It Right for Customers
Courses and Presentations
Check out the 9 tips in this quick presentation that you should keep in mind when designing your navigation experience.
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Create Navigation Menus with jQuery
Courses and Presentations
This intermediate-level online video course will get you up to speed with building menus using jQuery.
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Design Inspiration
50 Beautiful and User- Friendly Navigation Menus
Design Inspiration
From super-simple to highly artistic, these menus have one thing in common: they’re very easy to understand and use.
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20+ Responsive Mobile Navigation Inspirations
Design Inspiration
These responsive mobile sites are shining examples of what you can do with a navigation menu on the small screen.
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45 User Friendly Navigation Menu Examples
Design Inspiration
These websites prove that you don’t have to sacrifice creativity to make a menu user-friendly.
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31 Super Unique and Functional Website Navigation Menus
Design Inspiration
The navigation menu can play an important role in establishing a website’s character, as these examples do.
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10 Examples of Beautiful Vertical Navigation to Inspire You
Design Inspiration
Design fans will appreciate the aesthetic appeal of these vertical nav menus.
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Code & Tutorials
Navbar Template for Bootstrap
Code & Tutorials
The Navbar component in the Bootstrap framework gives you options for static and fixed (sticky) navigation bars.
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CSS Navigation Bar
Code & Tutorials
Learn how to build simple navigation bars using CSS in this beginner demo.
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Creating a Floating Navigation Menu
Code & Tutorials
Like the idea of using a sticky menu on your site? This tutorial will walk you through the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript you need to get started.
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Menu-Aim jQuery Plugin
Code & Tutorials
This plugin makes hover dropdown menus more usable by allowing the user to move the cursor to a submenu without accidentally collapsing it.
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38 Free Open Source CSS Dropdown Navigation Menus
Code & Tutorials
Want to copy and paste some CSS code rather than building your menu from scratch? Here are 38 basic menus that you can customize to suit your site.
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100 Great CSS Menu Tutorials
Code & Tutorials
Follow along with any of these 100 tutorials that will teach you how to create beautiful CSS menus.
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