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What’s this? Here you’ll find 74 annotated “Navigation Menu” design examples from Baymard’s UX benchmark of 60 major e-commerce sites. (Note: this is less than 1% of the full research catalog.)
During usability testing we consistently observe that mobile navigation is particularly difficult for users. When designing a mobile navigation it will often have to deviate significantly from the desktop mega drop-down. Most often the mobile menu is by default collapsed and hidden behind a ‘3-bars’ ‘hamburger’ icon. One particular pitfall most sites struggle with is a mobile menu design that can both allow users to access the broad parent category pages while also allowing users to go deep into the sub-subcategory levels.
More ‘Navigation Menu’ Insights
- Beside these mobile Navigation Menu designs we’ve also benchmarked the desktop versions; see the 44 desktop Navigation examples.
- The research team is currently conducting a new large-scale mobile usability study that focuses on the mobile homepage, navigation, search, product lists, and product pages. Note that we do observe the current mobile guidelines and underlying user behavior still applies, despite some of the screenshots looking dated. The new mobile study is expected to be ready at the very end of 2018.
Learn More: Besides exploring the 74 mobile “Navigation Menu” design examples below, you may also want to read our related article “The State of Mobile E-Commerce Search and Category Navigation”.
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