Indicazioni utili per chi deve progettare menu applicativi, da una checklist di Kathryn Whitenton del Nielsen Norman Group. I titoli:
- Don’t use tiny menus (or menu icons) on large screens.
- Put menus in familiar locations.
- Make menu links look interactive.
- Ensure that your menus have enough visual weight.
- Use link text colors that contrast with the background color.
- Tell users ‘where’ the currently visible screen is located within the menu options.
- Use understandable link labels.
- Make link labels easy to scan.
- For large websites, use menus to let users preview lower-level content.
- Provide local navigation menus for closely related content.
- Leverage visual communication.Make menu links big enough to be easily tapped or clicked.
- Ensure that drop-downs are not too small or too big.
- Consider ‘sticky’ menus for long pages.Optimize for easy physical access to frequently used commands.