I was just doing some research on designing drop-down menus, as it was a topic of a meeting we just had, and stumbled on a couple interesting articles, which surprisingly relate to the same concept, Mega Dropdown, which uses CSS and JQuery – Here is a very basic example:
Here are the articles I read on this – they both cover examples and best practices as well as usability issues. If nothing else I am sure the screen shots will inspire the creative leads.
Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well
Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
Anyway, I think it’s time we step-up our menus, especially for clients with massive amounts of pages or products. This seems to be a very clean way to show a lot of information quickly.
Here is an example from the articles (teaser):
Food Network -
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What do you guys think?
Thomas