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Responsive Navigation Patterns | Brad Frost Web

Top and left navigations are typical on large screens, but lack of screen real estate on small screens makes for an interesting challenge. As responsive design becomes more popular, it’s worth looking at the various ways of handling navigation for small screen sizes. Mobile web navigation must strike a balance between quick access to a site’s information and unobtrusiveness.

Here’s some of the more popular techniques for handling navigation in responsive designs:

• Top Nav or “Do Nothing” Approach
• The Footer Anchor
• The Select Menu
• The Toggle
• The Left Nav Flyout
• The Footer Only
• The “Hide and Cry”

There are of course advantages and disadvantages of each method and definitely some things to look out for when choosing what method’s right for your project.

Responsive Navigation Patterns | Brad Frost Web.