Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
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Re: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
#2It would really be great if people stop calling it the "Hamburger" icon, and just dub it as the "Menu" icon.
When I ask someone (who is not clued into UX discussions, e.g. my parents) to look for the "Hamburger" icon, they expect to find a literal hamburger shape. Ask them to look for "three or four parallel lines", and they find it faster. I've then asked them to learn is as the "Menu" button, and that seems to stick. Otherwise, it is GOTO START ;) !
So designers everywhere, please change this horrible name and use a more easy to grok name.
Re: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
#3Sadly Microsoft is in a rush to embrace the 'hamburger menu' in Windows 10 (mobile and otherwise), basically because it's common on the dominant mobile platforms: http://www.windowscentral.com/why-microsoft-hamburger-menus-...
Re: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
#4It would really be great if people stop calling it the "Hamburger" icon, and just dub it as the "Menu" icon. When I ask someone (who is not clued into UX discussions, e.g. my parents) to look for the "Hamburger" icon, they expect to find a literal hamburger shape. Ask them to look for "three or four parallel lines", and they find it faster. I've then asked them to learn is as the "Menu" button, and that seems to stic…
oh. I though it meant "settings" and every time I see both the hamburger icon (that we're discussing) and the gears icon (a common icon for settings, preferences, configuration) I get confused as to how I'm supposed to guess where you've put what I want.
Re: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
#5It's funny to read how differently this icon is interpreted. I always saw it as a menu and could for the longest time not figure out what this hamburger was.
I really like the "equal sign gone wrong"
Re: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
#6It would really be great if people stop calling it the "Hamburger" icon, and just dub it as the "Menu" icon. When I ask someone (who is not clued into UX discussions, e.g. my parents) to look for the "Hamburger" icon, they expect to find a literal hamburger shape. Ask them to look for "three or four parallel lines", and they find it faster. I've then asked them to learn is as the "Menu" button, and that seems to stic…
oh. I though it meant "settings" and every time I see both the hamburger icon (that we're discussing) and the gears icon (a common icon for settings, preferences, configuration) I get confused as to how I'm supposed to guess where you've put what I want.
Just click around until you find what you need. You even get to know the entire app if you do that. You're not going to blast a nuke or kill someone by clicking, after all.
Re: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
#7> Putting the hamburger inside a box, so it looks like a button, increases use by 22.4%.
I'm glad to see evidence that shows the extremes of flat designs has stupid ideas.
Re: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh. I though it meant "settings" and every time I see both the hamburger icon (that we're discussing) and the gears icon (a common icon for settings, preferences, configuration) I get confused as to how I'm supposed to guess where you've put what I want.
Just click around until you find what you need. You even get to know the entire app if you do that. You're not going to blast a nuke or kill someone by clicking, after all.
There's often no, or poorly implemented, undo on mobile so you risk data loss or mass-communicating something wanted to keep private or screwing up some setting and no way to retrieve it.
And it's not just "click the visible elements until you achieve the disired result", it's touch visible and invisible elements, combined with all the differen touch-gestures you know, in the hope that you'll get what you want, but possibly not.
Re: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
#9Doesn't it represent a "list"? As in a menu, a list of things..
Re: Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
#10Doesn't it represent a "list"? As in a menu, a list of things..
I Think people would pick up on that more if it had more but thinner lines. Or maybe broke up the lines into something that looked like text.