Comments on: Rise of the Mega Menu

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Web Services » Top 10 of 2009 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:03:09 +0000

[...] 5. Rise of the Mega Menu [...]

By: Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:30:58 +0000

Thanks for the comment, zackn9ne – would you care to expand on your problems with this kind of menu?

By: Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28:45 +0000

Jakob Nielson gives Office 2007 as an example of mega drop down and they’re particularly interesting because many of them show interesting ways of presenting options rather than a plain text list.

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:59 +0000

This brings to mind the ribbon navigation used in Office 7 – would this be a giga menu as it has a sub menu links in it’s mega menu??

By: zackn9ne

zackn9ne — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:57:28 +0000

I hate these

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:17:24 +0000

Interesting, I haven’t been consciously aware of this trend but it seems obvious now it’s pointed out.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:58:51 +0000

Hello, animated gifs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

By: Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:38:13 +0000

Absolutely, we wouldn’t want it to be a dumping ground, but it does offer more space to arrange links in different ways – it doesn’t have to be just a straight list of links.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:34:37 +0000

…though presumably the idea isn’t just to dump all kinds of awkward random craziness in there ?

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:28:56 +0000

I think we should consider this for corporate once it works on Go. I look forward to telling people their link can’t go on the homepage but can go in the Mega Menu!

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:25:07 +0000

This is something I’ve been thinking about over the last few months but it seems something that’s really hard to get quite right! Good luck with yours