Quite a classic but nonetheless we loved this fresh, neat drop down menu, designed in a lovely palette with a clear, simple approach.
This web design sample comes from emPivot’s website:
emPivot.com is the first online network to bring together the wide range of user generated and premium video content related to the environment. As a result, [...]
Here you are a classy, finely shaped tab menu from Weightshift, a small studio based in San Francisco.
Though we loved this web site on the whole (the typography is great and, generally, you can catch a meticulous attention behind every detail), we liked the most the quite vertically compressed menu (since the so-called web 2.0, [...]
When you click on the huge button on the top of Why Every One Loves Tumblr page, you’ll see a big check list menu appearing with four differente choices.
This is a peculiar way to navigate between section that I’ve seen only here but I think that may possibly turn out useful in many other situations.
A nice idea for Clearleft, a web agency specialized in user centered design: a web site menu made of numbered cards that makes a not so subtle suggestions to methods applied in Information Architecture.
Our attention was grabbed by a clever fonts comparison system in MyFonts‘ website: using a little sliding widget in the left sidebar, you can browse through thousands items, comparing the A glyph of available typefaces. You can get a more detailed preview of your type by simply hovering over the letter with your mouse.
Could you tell the difference between the breadcrumbs and the navigation? When both are displayed it’s quite obvious, but in other pages (look at here) it’s not.
Though it might turn out to be a nice graphic expedient, I think it could be risky to disguise one user interface pattern (navigation menu) as another. (breadcrumbs menu). [...]
Using different colours may lead to clashing, disorienting graphic outcomes. But I think this is not the case and we quite appreciated A S Hospitality expanding menu.
Minimalist web design it’s one of our (many) recurrent thoughts when reviewing websites. It’s really tough to come to inventive, not bare-looking solutions when you strip a website of every graphics assests and you’re not allowed to play any of the usual webdesign tricks. So we really loved this simple HTML menu, a nested list [...]
Ommwriter is
a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, vindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
We loved the simplicity of its vertical menu made with rounded items overlapping and the nice simple icons that are displayed on [...]
Artel is a Russian design bureau with a great logos and identities portfolio and a really nice navigation system.
We loved the tab menu because of the rounded cut just above the logo and the way the single tab displays a punch card, once you click on it.
In the so-called normal web world a navigation menu is always supposed to precede pagination, but what normally rules in webdesign, doesn’t minimally affect Subnormality strip website.
Hope you’ll enjoy these comics with too many words and a subversive menu in it: have an inspirational reading!
According to the website’s About page, Hitotoki
is a Japanese noun comprised of two components: hito or “one” and toki or “time,” and is often translated as “a moment.” In common usage, it can be used to describe any brief, singular stretch of time (if we share a meal someday, you can call that a hitotoki).
To put it [...]
If you’re looking for a navigation menu that does have the power of making a strong, immediate impression on your users, you can use Life magazine’s menu as a good starting point.
Menu’s buttons are displayed as big tabs framing a nice thumb (for sure at Life they’re not short on good photos, so finding a good [...]
On my previous job, when I was working for a big web portal, we got used to look up to Yahoo’s interaction design as one of the most insightful example of dealing with users’ experience on a large scale audience.
When you’re not able to relate to a definite target (ok, I too hate this word, [...]
I was firstly drawn to Mikey Burton’s portfolio, attracted by his beautiful illustrations and identity works. Then I’ve started admiring the unparalleled simplicity of his portfolio’s navigation menu: a simple list of gray links, with an open/close ajax effect, whose aim is just helping users to browse in the most efficient way.
This website’s menu certainly [...]
