It's... the hamburger menu. That's all it's ever been, on all platforms, and if you ever thought it was something more specific and meaningful than that then you read too much into a subset of...
It's... the hamburger menu. That's all it's ever been, on all platforms, and if you ever thought it was something more specific and meaningful than that then you read too much into a subset of your interactions with it.
Now the question of 'are hamburger menus stupid' is a far more interesting question, but that is cross platform and entirely consistent with how Apple are using them with ellipses.
It's not a hamburger menu at all. The hamburger menu is commonly displayed as three horizontal pipes stacked on each other that often slides out a focused panel on the left-hand side. Not an...
It's not a hamburger menu at all. The hamburger menu is commonly displayed as three horizontal pipes stacked on each other that often slides out a focused panel on the left-hand side. Not an ellipsis, and in general Apple eschews use of hamburger-style UX anyway. There's few if any uses of slide-out hamburger functionality in iOS.
What the author is criticizing is the inconsistent use across both platforms, and how Apple's "three dots" UI feels like a poor attempt to fit remaining functionality into iOS.
As a UI convention, it's not a hamburger menu at all. Hamburger menus are most often navigation-related. As much of a crutch they are, their actions are more or less known these days. This post is...
As a UI convention, it's not a hamburger menu at all. Hamburger menus are most often navigation-related. As much of a crutch they are, their actions are more or less known these days. This post is arguing that Apple's use of the ellipsis icon is overloaded as a lazy/inconsistent mess of "more" or "other actions", but with a far more nuanced and researched take.
It's... the hamburger menu. That's all it's ever been, on all platforms, and if you ever thought it was something more specific and meaningful than that then you read too much into a subset of your interactions with it.
Now the question of 'are hamburger menus stupid' is a far more interesting question, but that is cross platform and entirely consistent with how Apple are using them with ellipses.
It's not a hamburger menu at all. The hamburger menu is commonly displayed as three horizontal pipes stacked on each other that often slides out a focused panel on the left-hand side. Not an ellipsis, and in general Apple eschews use of hamburger-style UX anyway. There's few if any uses of slide-out hamburger functionality in iOS.
What the author is criticizing is the inconsistent use across both platforms, and how Apple's "three dots" UI feels like a poor attempt to fit remaining functionality into iOS.
As a UI convention, it's not a hamburger menu at all. Hamburger menus are most often navigation-related. As much of a crutch they are, their actions are more or less known these days. This post is arguing that Apple's use of the ellipsis icon is overloaded as a lazy/inconsistent mess of "more" or "other actions", but with a far more nuanced and researched take.