Re: Hamburger menu (was Re: technique to include security)

Well said!

I think hamberger = more things is the common use and best understanding
possible.

I hope in general that good design will give clear, easily recognised
affordances for important stuff for the particular app.


Steve Lee
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On 18 August 2015 at 13:13, Rochford, John <john.rochford@umassmed.edu>
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> Jamie and All,
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> The points Jamie made are great ones, and ones I support.
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> *From:* Jamie Knight [mailto:Jamie.Knight@bbc.co.uk]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 18, 2015 8:06 AM
> *To:* EA Draffan
> *Cc:* Steve Lee; Rochford, John; public-cognitive-a11y-tf; lisa. seeman
> *Subject:* Hamburger menu (was Re: technique to include security)
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> Hiya.
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> The hamburger menu and it's three vertical dots friend 'the kebab menu'
> are not new at all.
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> We tested them a few years ago at the BBC. I don't remember the details,
> but I can remember the main take away being that explicit menu names were
> better. I don't remember how strongly that was found to be.
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> linked to memory load for making objects actions and options visible
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> I disagree at this point. Putting everything on the page also tests badly.
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> As screen space drops, the art is putting the right objects visible on the
> page and hiding those who are less important.
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> A blanket declaration that hiding menus behind iconography is a bit blunt,
> I don't think object memory is the difficulty here.
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> To play devils advocate, all emerging affordances and conventions have to
> emerge. Hamburger menus are used across the web and within native mobile
> apps. In this regard they are very consistent.
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> I would hazard that for many users (myself included) consistency of an
> icon to mean 'more things' is actually less overload than trying to figure
> out what the term picked actually means on each and every website. Three
> bars is much easier than interpreting 'more', 'menu', 'all", "..." The
> other myriad things people use as menu button labels.
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> In memory term, I remember one thing (3 lines means more thins) rather
> than having to try and remember the wording used on each and every site I
> visit.
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> In my mind consistency and convention lead to affordances and we have to
> be careful not to be too alarmed as new conventions arise.
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> We don't use the hamburger menu right now at the BBC. But I am sure we
> will test it again soon and see what happens.
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> I suspect we will see an inflection point. Where more users know what it
> means than those who do not. When that point is I don't know.
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> My final thought is that the hamburger menu is a convention from the
> mobile world. As more and more users use the web on mobile first we may
> find that the demographics start to make a big difference. For example
> younger users, or poorer users (who only have access to the web on mobile)
> are the first to understand the convention.
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> Sorry that for a bit long! Quite a digression! Will change the subject to
> help with the threading.
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> Jamie + Lion
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> On 18 Aug 2015, at 12:42, EA Draffan <ead@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> I agree and interestingly Jakob Nielsen has just come out with some new
> guidance about those three lines that we now see as menu items for
> responsively designed sites – this is also linked to memory load for making
> objects actions and options visible in this case the fact that you lose the
> main menu system and are presented with what he calls a ‘hamburger menu’.
> http://tinyurl.com/nreydpa
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> *From:* Steve Lee [mailto:steve@opendirective.com
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> *Sent:* 18 August 2015 12:04
> *To:* John Rochford
> *Cc:* public-cognitive-a11y-tf; lisa. seeman
> *Subject:* RE: technique to include security
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> That's very good
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> Steve Lee
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> On 18 Aug 2015 11:58, "Rochford, John" <john.rochford@umassmed.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Lisa,
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> My second impression about this approach is that it could be combined with
> recommendations for what developers **should** do.
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> Example:
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> “Minimize the user’s memory load by making objects, actions, and options
> visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of
> the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be
> visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.”
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> Reference: Neilson 10 Principles at
> http://www.expressiveproductdesign.com/nielsens-10-usability-heuristics-user-interface-design/
> , provided by Steve Lee to our list serve on 8/14.
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> John
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> *From: Rochford, John Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 6:48 AM To:
> 'lisa.seeman' <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>; public-cognitive-a11y-tf
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> My first impression about this approach is that it does not provide
> developers any recommendations about what they **should** do, which is
> the optimal approach.
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> *From: lisa.seeman [mailto:lisa.seeman@zoho.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18,
> 2015 6:02 AM To: public-cognitive-a11y-tf <public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org>
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> *Hi
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> *I was thinking of the following technique as a way to include security
> and other considerations
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> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *"Do not require cognitive abilities when it is  avoidable"
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> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *In security this may include:
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *Requiring that the user has a good working memory or short term memory
> required to copy a code
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *Requiring that the user can remember complex passwords
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *Requiring that the user can remeber spelling of terms used in security
> questions such as how to spell a strange pets name
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *Requiring that the user can remember visual patterns
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *Having tokans, signing in via email account or face book, or biometrics
> are all alternatives to the above
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> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *In voice  systems this may include,
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *?       Requiring the user to understand categories,
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *?       Requiring the user to remember numbers
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *?       can all be used as a barrier to getting human help
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *is is aviodable by having 0 as a reserved digit to access a human
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> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *In the Web of things this may include:
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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>    1. *remembering what symbols mean
>    <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
>    2. *remembering sequences to run certain tasks
>    <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *This is aviodable by having simple text with symbols and
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *clear discovrability of how o complete each task
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-England-INDEXShriver-CenterUMass-Medical-School/227064920160>*
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> *and recovrability from errors
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> *All the best Lisa Seeman Athena ICT Accessibility Projects LinkedIn,
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