Navigation patterns

A quick group activity to research and explore the positives & negatives of the different navigation & header patterns.

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Navigation patterns

What & why

There are lots of different navigation & header patterns on the web—each useful in different situations.

Lots of usability research has been applied to the many different navigation patterns but it’s everywhere and difficult to compare.

Let’s crowd-source the knowledge of when to effectively use each navigation pattern.

Set up

  1. Form into pairs
  2. Get out something to write notes
  3. Use your search-foo to find all the different web navigation patterns
  4. Find the positives & negatives for each pattern
  5. We’ll discuss the results together
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Navigation patterns

A quick group activity to research and explore the positives & negatives of the different navigation & header patterns.