{"id":1733,"date":"2014-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/02\/07\/1689\/"},"modified":"2014-02-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T23:00:00","slug":"1689","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/02\/07\/1689\/","title":{"rendered":"Simpler DAM UI: Main navigation (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s an update to our thoughts on the main navigation<\/a> for our new, simpler DAM UI:<\/p>\n

The filter column on the left has been removed in favor of Google-style dropdown lists between search box and results. This saves space, and I hope will encourage filter usage because they now appear where the user is actually looking.<\/p>\n

The search section indicator (\u201cBilder\u201d in the screenshot) to the left of the search box has a brighter background; in the old draft you couldn\u2019t really see that it belonged to the search input field.<\/p>\n

A nice detail is that the search box now expands once focused. To make space for the larger input field, the links to the right of it switch from icon + text to icon-only while the search box is expanded.<\/p>\n

(Please excuse the German screenshot. I took it a few days ago and cannot produce an English one because my development environment is messed up and ugly right now \u2013 we\u2019ve switched from frontend to backend experiments for a while.)<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re interested in this stuff, you should read the brand new FogBugz Visits the Head(er) Shrinker<\/a> post by Adam Wishneusky. Looks a bit similar, and also has a search box that grows when you type in it!<\/p>\n

Update:<\/em> The Nielsen Norman Group says we shouldn\u2019t hide the available search sections in a mega dropdown\u2026 Jennifer Cardello and Kathryn Whitenton \u2013 Killing Off the Global Navigation: One Trend to Avoid<\/a>: \u201cEven if the global navigation is difficult to design and hard to maintain, most sites will still be better off showing top-level categories to users right away. It’s simply one of the most effective ways of helping users quickly understand what the site is about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s an update to our thoughts on the main navigation for our new, simpler DAM UI: The filter column on the left has been removed in favor of Google-style dropdown lists between search box and results. This saves space, and I hope will encourage filter usage because they now appear where the user is actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}