Why icons are bad for website navigation menus
Over the last couple of days I’ve come across a couple of site navigation menus rendered as icons and text. I’ve been trying to figure out why this bothers me.
Posts tagged “ia”
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The Guardian: Mobile versus desktop design
The Guardian’s desktop website could be made a lot easier to read by making it more like the mobile site.
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Does Twitter need an Edit Tweet button?
I say ‘no, delete’s enough’, iA says ‘yes, please’ while Manuel says ‘let’s have no buttons’. Ignoring the implementation problems, I think part of the charm of Twitter is its un–advertising. The brevity, immediacy and capacity to misspell or misphrase something are all part of this charm. True, I’m sure vast marketing departments prepare keyword–laden [...]
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Times in sensible nav menu shocker
The new Times design looks as if it’ll mark a move towards simpler, more logical online newspaper design.
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Vertical navigation and not making users think
An article about the apparent demise and general uselessness of vertical navigation menus may make you rethink visual design and information architecture.