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Main menu should support dropdowns #6

Open briancroxall opened 7 years ago

briancroxall commented 7 years ago

Specifically for the "Expertise" menu item

briancroxall commented 7 years ago

I'm actually open to arguments as to why we wouldn't need drop-downs. But as we've gone back and forth on the architecture of the menu and the pages, it seems like the easiest thing to do.

kerri-hicks commented 7 years ago

"easy" is in the eye of the beholder. :-) I make a case against drop-downs generally, because they're a more challenging UI element to use than a click is, and they require "hover" if you don't use click, which is an accessibility issue (so you have to enable click anyway, which can make it even more confusing). Also, you lose the likelihood that visitors will ever see the page of all experts -- if they see a drop-down, they usually use it, rather than trying to click the top of the drop-down list.

Jakob Nielsen wrote about drop-downs a long time ago, and most of his points are still valid. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/drop-down-menus-use-sparingly/

briancroxall commented 7 years ago

Well, the list of expertise is on the home page. And a visitor can click through to any of the individual items from there. Clicking on "Expertise" by itself just takes you to the same list again without any additional content.

Why have it then? We want "expertise" to show up in the menu so people can get to that from wherever they are on the site. The drop-down leaves the top-level nav looking less cluttered but will hopefully allow most users to get where they want to go with one less click.

kerri-hicks commented 7 years ago

1) Would "people" also be a drop-down? 2) How many items (approx) would be under "expertise"

briancroxall commented 7 years ago
  1. No. Of the current top-level nav, only "expertise" is a drop-down.
  2. Around 8?