Design Meltdown 2010 » Navigation

Icons in navigation menus

Patrick — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:30:09 +0000

This is a nice twist to the standard menu and navigation collection. These sites all make use of icons in their navigation in one way or another.

http://spyrestudios.com/20-great-examples-of-icons-in-navigation-design/

Beautiful website navigation

Patrick — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:30:23 +0000

Why must all sets like this start with the word “beautiful”…I guess it is accurate though, this is indeed a fine set of sites with beautiful navigation…enjoy.

http://www.underworldmagazines.com/beautiful-website-navigation/

Clean and minimal navigation

Patrick — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:00:27 +0000

Need some ideas for some very tasty navigation styles that focus on being super clean and typographic…search no more.

http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/30-examples-of-clean-and-minimal-website-navigation

Vertical navigation designs

Patrick — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:00:52 +0000

Navigation design has so much variation it’s nice to see a set like this that focuses on a single format of navigation; in this case vertical navigation.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/19/showcase-of-beautiful-vertical-navigation-designs/

Navigation inspiration – it’s fun to say

Patrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:18 +0000

Here is a fine collection of well designed navigation systems. Many of them we have seen many times over, but all the same it is great to see them collected here in one place.

http://www.problogdesign.com/inspiration/40-creative-navigation-menus/

Massive navigation round up

Patrick — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:00:52 +0000

Leave it to Smashing Magazine to cover a topic in great depth. This nice article sums up a lot of styles commonly in use in key navigation areas.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/04/showcase-of-modern-navigation-design-trends/

Good old fashioned navigation

Patrick — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:00:11 +0000

Its kind of ironic that I have never done a post on beautiful samples of navigation. I have done many on atypical navigation, but never focused on the normal approaches people take. That ends now I suppose.

http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/a-showcase-of-website-navigations-with-serious-click-appeal