Navigation

Navigation is a fundamental part of web design. When people say “navigation,” they mean how your website is accessed and the order of which it’s experienced. Most often, typography is used as a clear way of indicating where you are on the page. Some pages, such as pages that are contained to one page with a small amount of content, may not need additional support. Most times, your navigation should allow you to freely go back and forth between pages, and provide a clue that you’re on the same site.


Navigation as Navigation

Navigation doing what you intend it to do, in a familiar and intuitive fashion.


Julia Kim Smith, Linked by Air


Keller Easterling

Stylized drop down


Content as Navigation

In these examples, designers are expanding their site design to the navigation itself.

Future Expansion Architects

Text content leads you to page