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topic: navigation-design
Topic:
navigation-design
12 entries tagged
navigation-design
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RULE: Mega menu hover delay 500ms before show, 100ms reveal. Mobile uses accordion / sequential, not the same mega menu.
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RULE: Expose Industries and Services as two orthogonal axes in the top nav. Don't hide one behind the other.
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RULE: Don't use audience-based primary nav unless audience categories are mutually exclusive, jargon-free, with substantially unique content
Reference entries (9)
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NN/g: split buttons unreliable on touch (fat-finger conflicts) — use sequential menus or accordions on mobile
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Google Search Central: faceted navigation creates combinatorial duplicate URLs; not search-friendly by default
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NN/g: use labels with strong information scent; avoid vague verbs and conversational tone in nav (Apr 16 2023)
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NN/g: "On large screens, don't cover the entire screen when megamenus are open" (Apr 30 2023)
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NN/g mega-menu hover protocol: wait 0.5s before showing, then display within 0.1s
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Jakob Nielsen: "Mega menus show everything at a glance, so users can see rather than try to remember"
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NN/g: five recurring problems with role-based navigation (Laubheimer, 2022)
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NN/g: audience-based navigation "will often degrade usability" (Laubheimer, Aug 14 2022)
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Research brief: Information architecture for service businesses with multiple verticals (piece 6 of 15)
