On the design trend of website navigation bar

Navigation is the most important element in Web design. Since it is difficult for users to browse the content of a Web site without navigation, a reasonable navigation bar allows visitors to explore more interesting content.

This article will show some recent trends in the design of Web navigation bars and some trendy navigation bar effects.

1. Description of navigation bar

The most important task of the navigation bar is to clearly point to the content of each part of the site, but it is difficult to express it through one or two keywords, so using the description row navigation bar allows visitors to learn what they will see before they click.

Because this navigation and visitors feel is: There is a guide to do live commentary, so relative to the keyword only "silent navigation", someone will be descriptive navigation as "audio navigation."

2.Mac Style still popular

Apple's products often lead to new trends, and many followers are keen on the design of fake Apple, and the website navigation bar is not spared. But objectively speaking, the strong and concise design of Apple has been in vogue for many years, but there is no trend of obsolescence.

At the same time, designers also derive a lot of design with Mac elements.

Strong Mac Texture

Green Mac style navigation bar

3. Eye-catching icon

An important trend in navigation bar design is that the icons are used more and more frequently.

To make navigation more visible, designers usually decorate the navigation bar with beautiful icons. Here, the icon icon should be clearly identifiable and can clearly express the contents of the category. Instead of using larger icons to attract eyeballs.

There is also the image embedded in the text

4. Vertical tab

In many people's first impressions, tab tags are generally horizontal. But some smart web designers have broken the dead loop and made the vertical tab effect. Attracts a lot of people's eyeballs.

But vertical navigation also has several obvious drawbacks: 1. Web pages need to have enough length to show all the categories; 2. This navigation needs to scroll the page; 3. The text is more difficult to read, and no one's head is tilted sideways.

5. Hand-Painted style

Since the global upsurge of blog, the display of individuality has become a trend in this era. Many painting enthusiasts make their own personal websites by hand-painted.

6. Hint Design

Unlike the description of the first article, the implied design generally does not use plaintext to describe the contents of the category, but to prompt the viewer by color or graphic. However, it is difficult to perceive the viewer's inability to comprehend.

As shown in the image of the monthly archive navigation, the designer for each month to set the representative color, warm month with a red warm tone, the cold months with a blue tone of the cold. But what would a viewer think if he were in a hemisphere?