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Questions tagged [navigation]

For questions about the mechanisms you can use to help people find their way around your application or web site.

The terms comes from it's use as the means of controlling and monitoring the position and direction of a ship, plane or vehicle to get from one place to another.

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What is "eyebrow navigation"?

Just came across this term in a document I'm reading through, referring to "eyebrow links" in the context of navigation. Presumably it's a form of navigation at the top of the page, but what specifically is this referring to? I've never heard it…
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Is Repeating a Word in a Navigation Panel Bad?

On a clothing website (in one of the navigation panels). I have sorted the dresses according to their colour (example and snapshot is listed below). Below is the example **Dresses by Collours** Black Colour Dresses White Colour Dresses Red Colour…
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Should I add a 'Home' Button to the navigation?

I know that it is common behavior to have the logo of a web page be a link to the home page, but should I also have a 'home' link in the navigation bar for it as well?
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Should nav items be hover or click to activate dropdown?

When theres a dropdown option, should users expect to hover on it or click on it? I have seen this done either way. I recently visited this lightspeed's website. They have a dropdown menu for their Product page. I noticed me and other people are…
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When to use previous/next vs. back/forward? (and what about back/next?)

Is there any standard recommendation on when to use previous/next vs. back/forward? Or is there any reason not to pair back with next? To me, previous/next make sense to use as a pair when navigating a linear sequence, such as flipping through the…
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What is the standard on always showing/not-showing second level navigation?

Our website has a global horizontal main menu that drops down to show all second-level navigation items. We have requirements to build our website no wider than 1000px (according to web stats of visitor resolutions). We also have advertising…
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Why do most image gallery popups have Previous and Next arrows so far apart?

This is one of those things that has persisted on the web without getting fixed for so long that I'm starting to wonder if there's something wrong with me for having a beef with this design pattern. There are a few commonly used image gallery…
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On Click or On Hover for mega menu in responsive design?

I am working on designing a responsive site which will have a mega menu for almost all the menu items. The initial consensus was to show the mega menu on hover but the challenge is that that the option fails when the site is viewed on a mobile…
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Complex channel based navigation modal

The application I am re-designing has a channel management modal for managing its customers. The admin hierarchy is as follows: My Company Admins Channel Admins Resellers Admins Customer Admins End Users Each Admin can access and manage the…
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Horizontal navigation with vertical sub-navigation

I have an application for institutions to buy and sell loans within an exchange which also combines a multiple set of features. So our user base are customers from financial institutions who have not been trained on the program. We have a 3 tier…
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When should you use task-based navigation over topic-based navigation?

What are the pros and cons of each?
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Second navigation level with pills

Not sure why I'm struggling so much with this :). We're using horizontal pills navigation on a site I'm working on (like this: http://getbootstrap.com/components/#nav-pills ) I need to add a second level of navigation within one of the navs. A…
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User benefit vs. UI consistency

I'm working on a configurator tool with a complicated back end and a large selection of products and product options. In the current behavior if an option is selected that requires the selection of other options the user is messaged. I would like to…
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What's better than »More ...« as a main navigation tab?

I am looking for a solution for the following problem: We have a horizontal main navigation showing some of the most important topics covered by the website and a tab called "All Topics". So far so good, but we like to show another tab containing…
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Putting critical but low traffic link in primary navigation

Our site (veetle.com) requires a video player plugin to be downloaded before you can play any video on the site. We've always had an inline install prompt when you enter into the video page: Now some co-workers believe that this isn't enough. They…
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