Hamburger Menu — or Hamburger Icon — is a term commonly used to refer to applications. It can make you hungry, but it has nothing to do with food. Where does that silly name come from and what is the menu for? The history of the hamburger icon The Hamburger icon (menu, symbol, button, etc.) […]
Source: Derrek Lee / Android Central What would you like to know Google’s new Play Store user interface is now rolling out to Android devices. The updated UI removes the hamburger menu and moves it to the profile thumbnail. The overhaul is already a point of contention for some. There have been rumors that Google […]
Of all of Google’s major Android apps, the Play Store is perhaps the one seeing the most redesigns, with most of them coming without warning. Long before Gmail and Calendar even embraced it, the first Android app marketplace began to incorporate material design elements and principles, sometimes not to user satisfaction. Google Play Store is […]
Google is no stranger to making tweaks and changes to its most popular apps and services, especially in the form of A / B testing. The latest appears to be a UI test on the Google Play Store that essentially removes the tried and true side burger menu navigation method. We’ve seen plenty of apps […]
Rather than using words like “profile”, “menu” and “homepage” to navigate to different parts of a website or application, they often use symbols. It saves a lot of space and also makes it much nicer. Usually, we don’t really pay attention to symbols, gradually becoming completely oblivious to them as we train our minds to […]
With the last Google Maps update, you know, the one that brought in a new app icon, Google removed the ability to use the hamburger menu. Instead, a list of settings now resides in the account icon at the top right while adding an additional tab at the bottom. The next app to get a […]
Home > Apple > Apple’s embrace of the ellipse menu, born hamburger menu Thom holwerda 2019-09-02 Apple As I explore iOS 13 to write the brand new Take control of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, I became concerned with what seems to be an increasingly common pattern in iOS software design. What ultimately prompted me […]
In this article, we are going to explain how to develop a burger-like menu which consists of a fixed button on the navigation bar which, when clicked, shows or hides the side menu containing a list of links, as can be seen below : Figure 1. View of the desktop browser. This menu is also […]
Microsoft recently worked on Cortana for Android. The app received a major overhaul with version 2.0 in December and added support for the lock screen in March. Cortana 2.9 has just been released, which changes the user interface again. Cortana v2.8 Cortana v2.9 At least for me the previous design was a bit confusing. The […]
The burger menu has always been controversial, with many believing its rather smug parallel lines to be too abstract and not understood by all users. Even though the icon has proliferated, as more and more business websites have become responsive, it has rarely been seen as a standard. There are use cases for the hamburger. […]
Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming apps out there, but it’s not necessarily the most beautifully designed (unfortunately that was Rdio, long lost). Navigating through the different sections of its app took a lot of tapping and was often not very intuitive. Today, Spotify is trying to improve its interface with a […]
What if I told you that websites and smartphones contain burgers? You would probably think that I totally lost it after I stopped my meds. But it’s absolutely true, I’m not kidding. When you open an app on your smartphone or on certain websites today, you might be looking at a hamburger, that is, a […]
Insiders call it “the hamburger”: three stacked rows, usually in the upper left or right corner of a website, that people can click to see a menu of pages on the site. Once considered an industry standard, the icon has garnered a lot of attention lately, and not all that positive. Here has AtlanticIt seems […]
The modern publishing world means making critical decisions about things like burgers. In an era when publishers acquired the religion of design, the so-called “hamburger menu,” which appears as three parallel lines and obscures section navigation, has become a divisive tactic. It is presented by some as modern, mobile and minimalist. Others deride it as […]
