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Mega drop-down navigation at Basecamp and Rails Guides site Matt Mar 25
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Jakob Nielsen says mega drop-down navigation menus work well.
Given that regular drop-down menus are rife with usability problems, it takes a lot for me to recommend a new form of drop-down. But, as our testing videos show, mega drop-downs overcome the downsides of regular drop-downs. Thus, I can recommend one while warning against the other.
We’ll +1 that. A good, related example from our world: The project switcher in Basecamp.
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Design Decisions: Basecamp Project Switcher [SvN] explains how we redesigned the project switcher from a normal drop-down to a mega drop-down.
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