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The mega menu is a bit odd. I posted about this awhile back in this topic and wanted to raise what I think would be some helpful improvements to the menu as an idea.

Here’s a summary of what I mentioned in my conversation:

  • it’s odd that the mega menus don’t appear on hover and require a click -- the pattern you generally see with these kinds of menus is one that exposes the content in the menu first on hover, allows for the main navigation element to be clicked taking you to an overview, or child elements within to be selected to get to specifics
  • it would be good to tighten up the relationship between the parent and child. Seems like there’s a lot of white space and a better relationship to the parent that could be created. I see the crew at Zapier has done a bit of work here via custom CSS to better distinguish the hierarchy of information.
  • for the community menu - it’s not always clear that there may be more parent/child categories in the menu - wondering if a change in width or some other indicators would help here
  • with the new KB menu - it seems duplicative to have the primary nav item and the item at the top of the menu be the same -- seems like this could be accomplished by having the main item be clickable as noted above. In fact, we’ve found most folks miss this menu all together skipping entirely the new KB landing page and the benefits it brings.

 

 

Thanks @Scott Baldwin! Your suggestions are very clear and helpful.

I’d put this idea to open. And in the meanwhile, I’ll bring them back to the team and see if we can do some quick improvements for the mega menu. :) 


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