Hamburger menu in Windows 10

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As much I dislike the hamburger menu in mobile apps; I think they don't belong in Windows due to the fact it kills the pivot menu in Modern Design Language. They lack consistency in Windows and it shows a bad app port coming from Android/iOS. Windows developers should design their app base on what OS platform they're targeting, instead of having 1 UI for different platforms. Microsoft should address this issue to developers to design their app with Modern Design Language for Windows and update their own in-house apps as well. It's a shame to see this happen to Windows. 

 

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I wish they'd do the thing they did with PowerPoint at Build 2014 and put the icon where the hamburger menu icon is.

 

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That's great for desktop environment, but on a mobile device like Lumia, it will be a problem. The 3 dots with pivot navigation were better than having a hamburger menu since it represent a clean user interface without all the necessary clutter. 

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I hate to say it, but the hamburger menu is pretty universal at this point. It'll help drive adoption.

 

As much as I liked the pivot feature of Metro, it held back app development as many developers didn't know how to adapt their app for the pivot layout. Office for example, wouldn't fit a pivot layout.

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I hate to say it, but the hamburger menu is pretty universal at this point. It'll help drive adoption.

 

As much as I liked the pivot feature of Metro, it held back app development as many developers didn't know how to adapt their app for the pivot layout. Office for example, wouldn't fit a pivot layout.

It will be a nail to the coffin for Modern Design Language for Windows if it happens. Before the hamburger menu, almost every app has their own unique styling, but now it's pretty much the same port across different platforms. 

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I get confused between the appbar and the hamburger menu when both are present :laugh: I guess it would grow on me but I hope they put it at the bottom. They also need to standardize on it. It needs to be in one corner for entire OS.

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I get confused between the appbar and the hamburger menu when both are present :laugh: I guess it would grow on me but I hope they put it at the bottom. They also need to standardize on it. It needs to be in one corner for entire OS.

The hamburger menu makes Windows apps like a bad port from Android/iOS. A well design app should tailor to the platform it's targeting.  ;)

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That's great for desktop environment, but on a mobile device like Lumia, it will be a problem. The 3 dots with pivot navigation were better than having a hamburger menu since it represent a clean user interface without all the necessary clutter. 

 

 

I'm talking about the program icon at the left of the main toolbar that serves the same function as the hamburger icon. VLC does this on iOS and I like it. Windows is well known for having the program icon at the far left of the title bar. I'm not a fan of the Pivot bar. Particularly because you cannot see the menu options unless you keep swiping.

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I haven't read about it but I hope they can implement a swipe-to-right in the middle of an app screen, when there's nothing on the left to swipe, to show that menu. Reaching for the left edge of the screen can hard with the increasing size of new devices.

 

If they are going for the hamburger menu across all the system, maybe they can think of getting rid of the action bar as it will only occupy screen state that can be served in the menu on the left.

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