3 Good Reasons Why You Might Want to Remove that Hamburger Menu from Your Product
And many more reason why hamburger menu actually can break the user experience.
Who doesn’t love a good hamburger? It’s one of the most popular food loved by so many people around the world. As popular as it is, the “hamburger” is also proven to be quite popular in the digital design world. So today, we are going to discuss the “hamburger” that is used by so many designers in their mobile web or apps design.
History of Hamburger menu
This menu was designed by Norm Cox for the Xerox Star, the world’s first graphical user interface. He’s the co-founder of Cox & Hall and has been an interaction/experience design consultant since 1982. He also happened to design the document icon for the same interface. After Xerox Star, however, the icon disappeared for quite some time.
Then it resurfaced from the dead when the new, much smaller, interface that smartphones had, designers had to look for a way to make everything fit onto a 4-inch screen. It is unclear what app used it first but this so-called “hamburger menu” has been around for a good few years now. Many apps are still using this kind of navigation even though there are a LOT of debates regarding the use of the…