Like the piece linked to hints at, the most popular alternative at the moment is to use a fixed tab bar for important navigation elements. We do this for some navigation on the Wikipedia iOS app, just like Facebook, Twitter, Quora, and many others at the moment.
Interestingly, Slack and a few other popular apps also do what the Wikipedia app does, which is to forgo the hamburger for the main global nav menu icon, and use your brand's logo instead. Weird, but my guess would be that it works since people are used to tapping icons like this as a Home function. I am not sure there's anything stopping us from following the iOS pattern we already use on mobile web, where the dreaded hamburger still reigns supreme?
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 7:56 PM Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
This has come up numerous times on the mailing list and is well known. Here are 3 from a google search but I remember many more [1,2,3]
The problem we have that others do not is internationalisation.
Evidence shows just labelling it menu does wonders but this doesn't necessarily work in other languages.
I think there's lots of kudos to be had here if a designer wants to tackle this problem.
So maybe the real question is: is the reason this hasn't been tackled because it's a hard problem or we have more important things to do or something else?
[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org&q=sub...
[2]http://osdir.lowified.com/general/2013-11/msg26826.html [3] http://mobile-l.wikimedia.narkive.com/NUkNZ4Xr/wikimediamobile-usability-of-... On 10 Aug 2015 7:45 pm, "nirzardp@gmail.com" nirzardp@gmail.com wrote:
+1
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Hamburger Menu Doesn't Work It's a beautiful, elegant solution that gets it all wrong, and it's time to move on http://deep.design/the-hamburger-menu/
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