It's called the Kebab menu now. I'm a fan of chicken.
Seriously though, I know I'm getting old. But I feel like it's younger designers that didn't grow up using old interfaces. I don't like the switch to this new paradigm where every app has to recreate the wheel with their UX.
I can't think of any UI that is able to put all of its affordances on the screen at the same time. Even if you had the screen space, discoverability is hindered by the sheer number of options.
I don't think hamburger menus are worse than any other kind of menu. It's a symbol, much as "File" is now a purely symbolic word -- many applications don't have even metaphorical "files". You have to learn it, just as you once had to learn why moving the little doohickey on your desk moved the little pointer on the screen.
TFA is still talking about hidden options. They've just replaced the menu with a sidebar. I suspect that's good for discoverability: menus disappear after you use them, while sidebars can be added and dismissed. (Though you now need to think carefully about what options you put on them, because real estate is limited on many devices and you don't want users to have to routinely add an extra click to dismiss.)
It's called the Kebab menu now. I'm a fan of chicken.
Seriously though, I know I'm getting old. But I feel like it's younger designers that didn't grow up using old interfaces. I don't like the switch to this new paradigm where every app has to recreate the wheel with their UX.
Indeed. Most modern UI is awful, hiding options behind opaque menus.
If you make a UI on a desktop, and you are considering a hamburger menu then stop.
How are your users going to figure out how to do anything? A hamburger isn't descriptive.
The best I've seen generally of this paradigm just have their file/edit menus behind the burger. At least then its just one level of indirection.
I can't think of any UI that is able to put all of its affordances on the screen at the same time. Even if you had the screen space, discoverability is hindered by the sheer number of options.
I don't think hamburger menus are worse than any other kind of menu. It's a symbol, much as "File" is now a purely symbolic word -- many applications don't have even metaphorical "files". You have to learn it, just as you once had to learn why moving the little doohickey on your desk moved the little pointer on the screen.
TFA is still talking about hidden options. They've just replaced the menu with a sidebar. I suspect that's good for discoverability: menus disappear after you use them, while sidebars can be added and dismissed. (Though you now need to think carefully about what options you put on them, because real estate is limited on many devices and you don't want users to have to routinely add an extra click to dismiss.)