Nice Navigation Tool
The process of selecting a navigation format usually starts with a few standard questions:
- What does the sitemap look like?
- Are there a few pages or thousands?
- How will the site content evolve over time?
- What are the accessibility requirements?
And many more…
Once that’s done, it’s a simple case of rolling it all out. The thinking ends and the labour begins.
That’s why it’s always good to find examples that reflect a thought process that has carried on into the second level of navigation.
Photobox Dropdown
This example from Photobox shows a handy little tool that lets the user delve into a 3rd level within the navigation dropdown instead of loading up a whole new page of options.
It’s not consistent across each top level item and that’s okay.
After all, the question “is it useful?” should always carry more weight than “is it consistent?”.
By going into autopilot and rolling out the standard UI elements we risk building interfaces for computers instead of people.
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