Mobile Navigation Patterns and Best Practices
In mobile interface design, optimizing space while ensuring user-friendly elements is crucial. Explore various navigation patterns like Top Nav, Footer Anchor, Select Menu, Toggle Menu, Left Nav Flyout, Footer Only, and Hide N Cry. Each pattern has its pros and cons to consider for a seamless mobile experience.
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Responsive Navigation Patterns Michael Gyarmathy - CSCE 436
Introduction In the design of mobile interfaces, space is a significant design constraint. On the other hand, screen elements must be large enough to avoid the fat finger effect.
Introduction How do we design mobile navigation menus in consideration of these two criteria?
1.Top Nav (aka Do Nothing) Pros: easy to implement, minimal CSS Cons: height issues, not scalable, fat finger effect
2.Footer Anchor Pros: easy to implement, small header element Cons: not elegant, anchor jump is jarring/disorienting
3.Select Menu Pros: frees up a lot of space, easily recognizable, triggers native controls Cons: lack of styling control, difficult to handle subnav items
4.Toggle Menu Pros: keeps the user in place, elegant, easy to scale Cons: animation performance issues
5.Left Nav Flyout Pros: utilizes space very effectively, sophisticated, Facebook conventions Cons: lots of moving parts, doesn t scale well, potentially confusing
6.Footer Only Pros: frees up a lot of header space, content-first Cons: difficult to discover, difficult to access
7.Hide N Cry Pros: clears up a lot of space, trivial to implement Cons: loss of essential functionality (don t penalize users for visiting your site on smaller devices)
