#navigation
9 pieces filed under “navigation”.
Anchor navigation on long pages: TOCs that get used
Tables of contents are either the hardest-working furniture on a long page or pure decoration. How we design anchor navigation that earns its pixels.
Taxonomy is the store: e-commerce navigation done properly
E-commerce taxonomy done properly: category trees that match how customers think, mega-menu rules, facets vs filters, and search as a navigational layer.
Settings IA: where features go to be findable
Settings screens are where growing products quietly drown. Grouping by user intent, search-within-settings, destructive zoning and how to migrate categories safely.
Sticky elements that don't annoy anyone
Sticky headers, bars and CTAs must pay rent for the viewport they occupy. Height budgets, scroll-directional chrome, and the focus traps behind sticky UI.
Information architecture for marketing sites: the growth lever in plain sight
IA decides what buyers find, what search engines index and what survives a redesign. The nav-to-journey map, the three-level ceiling and URLs that outlive themes.
Workspaces and orgs: the UX of switching context
Where the workspace switcher lives, URL strategy per tenant, cross-space notifications, and preventing wrong-org mistakes without nannying confirm dialogs.
Locale switchers without the flag clipart
Language switchers are small UI with big politics. Where the control lives, name-in-own-language rules, hreflang interplay, script support, and when to skip it.
Navigation that survives the 375px test
Hamburger alternatives for content-heavy sites: visible-priority nav, hybrid patterns, light mega menus, breadcrumbs as wayfinding, and measuring findability properly.
The footer is a sitemap with manners
Footers are the most neglected designed surface on the web. A taxonomy of trustworthy footer patterns — navigation, reassurance, colophons — and what each one earns.