Sliding down menu bar makes me dizzy

[skitown]

Commonly used doesn't imply 'good' design. On the web, popular patterns are unfortunately often the worst choice for both usability and performance. Web design profession doesn't have any quality bar or certification.

If you like this behavior it's your site, do what you like. As a user i hate it and would like a way to avoid it.

As a web professional and user, I wholeheartedly agree. I would much prefer a consistent, nav bar that doesn't show/hide when I scroll up/down. I find it far more distracting than useful.

 

[jelloslug]

I despise auto hiding tool/menu bars. I can understand the logic for it on a phone with limited screen space but on desktop/laptop browser, screen space is not at such a premium that you need to squeeze out that last two lines work of space.

 

[Beaker]

I do not want to have to tap twice for nav bar items, it is slow at best and distracting at worst. That said, I wouldn't mind if the background of the nav bar being the map, which would kind of give us the best of both worlds.

 

[danny]

Commonly used doesn't imply 'good' design.

Yeah, I know this. We made the choice based on what we thought was best for usability overall. It's not a matter of what we 'like'. My point about it being commonly used, is that clearly plenty of people disagree about this stuff, hence why variability exists. Google for example uses this behavior on many of its apps and they have plenty of fans of their current design direction.

An additional note on the hiding bar. As moderators, we must scroll all the way back to the top to access reports. The previous functionality was that the reports would be visible anywhere in the vertical navigation of the page. It's a bit cumbersome and my personal preference would be to float the moderation bar at the top of the display, no matter where you are in the page.

Really? I don't believe (at least in my experience) that the mod bar ever stuck to the top. I am looking at this on a test site using the old navbar and it doesn't stick while you scroll down.

 

[danny]

I do not want to have to tap twice for nav bar items, it is slow at best and distracting at worst. That said, I wouldn't mind if the background of the nav bar being the map, which would kind of give us the best of both worlds.

Where are you having to tap twice? Do you mean while viewing in mobile?

And what do you mean by "being the map"?

 

[ohmman]

Really? I don't believe (at least in my experience) that the mod bar ever stuck to the top. I am looking at this on a test site using the old navbar and it doesn't stick while you scroll down.

It's quite possible I'm mistaken. But it certainly feels like a different workflow. I'll get used to whatever...

 

[tonglaji]

Google for example uses this behavior on many of its apps and they have plenty of fans of their current design direction.

Not to say anything against this forum implementation, which I think is great, but Google is the actually the last place "we" look for inspiration in terms of UI design. By "we", I mean a group a UI designers and web application developers that I interact with. To give one example of the google UI that "we" frown upon: gmail's compose new mail window. Anyway, just want to say that Google may not be a good place to copy UI schemes from, in most cases.

Back to this bug, could a "disable" option of this sliding bar be added to the user profile?

 

[danny]

@tonglaji I was simply giving Google as an example of a company that makes some of the most used apps that makes use of it. It doesn't mean we derive all design ideas from it.

 

[LST]

I would really be happy if i could turn this behaviour off. .. christmas present ?

 

[danny]

I would really be happy if i could turn this behaviour off. .. christmas present ?

We're working on stuff. The current behavior is functioning poorly. Update incoming soon.

 

[tonglaji]

while waiting on the fix, I am now viewing the pages upwards to avoid the menu from dropping down. It is not natural, but it makes me "feel better" Basically, I use spacebar to advance to the bottom of every page, and scroll up from there.

 

[prqpn]

This seems like it was fixed sometime in the last few hours for me (Safari).

 

[danny]

This seems like it was fixed sometime in the last few hours for me (Safari).

As I noted in another thread, we did an update the day before yesterday I believe, which should have taken care of most the issues mentioned in this thread.

 

[tonglaji]

Thank you! I can confirm the fix.