Comments on: Hangover Navigation http://mnteractive.com/archive/hangover-navigation Minnesota's Interaction Design, Information Architecture, and User Experience Design Community Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Tom M http://mnteractive.com/archive/hangover-navigation/comment-page-1#comment-341 Tom M Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:00:30 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/hangover-navigation/#comment-341 Reminds me of some projects I was involved with a couple years back. My then-company had gone "fly-out happy", and that would literally be the first suggestion our CEO or one of the developers would make during our very first contact with a customer. I'd just cringe. So naturally that would squelch any chance of looking at the experience end of it and any attempt at innovation. Also, the fly-outs rarely worked on all platforms and more than likely looked bad, yet we sold them every time. A related incident was offering those same flyouts and offering sub-menu after sub-menu within the fly-outs, so the customer had "everything at their fingertips". So picture links down the left side, with fly-outs upon fly-outs expanding further and further to the right until they literally touched the right margin. Hangover, indeed. Reminds me of some projects I was involved with a couple years back. My then-company had gone “fly-out happy”, and that would literally be the first suggestion our CEO or one of the developers would make during our very first contact with a customer. I’d just cringe. So naturally that would squelch any chance of looking at the experience end of it and any attempt at innovation. Also, the fly-outs rarely worked on all platforms and more than likely looked bad, yet we sold them every time.

A related incident was offering those same flyouts and offering sub-menu after sub-menu within the fly-outs, so the customer had “everything at their fingertips”. So picture links down the left side, with fly-outs upon fly-outs expanding further and further to the right until they literally touched the right margin. Hangover, indeed.

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