New Navigation Menu technology

[Chani Ruzzo]

Honestly I like the new logo, love that things are getting to be more user friendly for smartphone users.

But. On my computer. The menu looks a bit clunky, boxes vs. words don't really look visually pleasing. Maybe I like the old layout better when the menu didn't take up 1/4 of my screen and was not as long/wide.

[Patrick O'Malley]

Just a little heads up for Admin, while the new menus are nice and I'm sure the iThing crowd are happy, they're pretty hard to use in a no-mouse environment. And before anyone cries luddite, a no-mouse environment is what a lot of visually and otherwise impaired people use to navigate their computers. I have no idea right now just how big an issue this is but I suspect it might be significant, as my keyboard-centric workflow need some readjustment and that usually coincide with problems for these adaptive techs.

[Abe Froman]

Honestly I like the new logo, love that things are getting to be more user friendly for smartphone users.

But. On my computer. The menu looks a bit clunky, boxes vs. words don't really look visually pleasing. Maybe I like the old layout better when the menu didn't take up 1/4 of my screen and was not as long/wide.

I didn't notice a size difference on my screen

[Chani Ruzzo]

Honestly I like the new logo, love that things are getting to be more user friendly for smartphone users.

But. On my computer. The menu looks a bit clunky, boxes vs. words don't really look visually pleasing. Maybe I like the old layout better when the menu didn't take up 1/4 of my screen and was not as long/wide.

I didn't notice a size difference on my screen

what my screen looks like. like the menu is too big to even fit on my screen = not liked

[J K Rowling]

It's really big on my screen too. Not a huge fan of having to wait to use the home page instead of just being able to click My Office. I don't use the SIM on my phone (and people actually buy tablets?) so I'm not really a fan.

[Friedrich Barbarossa]

The iThing people are pleased.....though this iThing person is looking forward to getting his mitts on a Microsoft Surface.

I logged on with my work laptop yesterday and didn't notice a difference.

[Three Crowns Racing]

Honestly I like the new logo, love that things are getting to be more user friendly for smartphone users.

But. On my computer. The menu looks a bit clunky, boxes vs. words don't really look visually pleasing. Maybe I like the old layout better when the menu didn't take up 1/4 of my screen and was not as long/wide.

I didn't notice a size difference on my screen

what my screen looks like. like the menu is too big to even fit on my screen = not liked

It has a lot to do with screen resolution. The menus don't take up that much of my screen because I'm using a higher screen resolution, but the menus are definitely 50% longer, or more, than they used to be. I'm guessing that the added spacing between options is to make it easier to select each menu item on touch screens?

[Abe Froman]

Not a huge fan of having to wait to use the home page instead of just being able to click My Office.

I have to get used to that too. I was notorious for just clicking My Office. Now I just have to get used to clicking the logo to the left of it. Same result.

[Three Crowns Racing]

Not a huge fan of having to wait to use the home page instead of just being able to click My Office.

I have to get used to that too. I was notorious for just clicking My Office. Now I just have to get used to clicking the logo to the left of it. Same result.

Right. it isn't like you have to use the menu; you can still easily get to your home page in one click.

[Abe Froman]

It has a lot to do with screen resolution.

I guess I didn't consider screen resolution. I always have one of the highest available, in my laptop being 1680x1050.

[A.R. Roberts]

Very cool! Loving this! Thank you!!!

[The Steward]

It's really big on my screen too. Not a huge fan of having to wait to use the home page instead of just being able to click My Office. I don't use the SIM on my phone (and people actually buy tablets?) so I'm not really a fan.

It is a definite change to re-train your brain/hand coordination to click slightly to the left of the old My Office button for the quick link that was mentioned in the first post of this thread, but I think in no time we will both relearn it.

[J K Rowling]

It's really big on my screen too. Not a huge fan of having to wait to use the home page instead of just being able to click My Office. I don't use the SIM on my phone (and people actually buy tablets?) so I'm not really a fan.

It is a definite change to re-train your brain/hand coordination to click slightly to the left of the old My Office button for the quick link that was mentioned in the first post of this thread, but I think in no time we will both relearn it.

Didn't even realize it until Jarrod mentioned it. But that spacing, oy, that spacing.

[Kim Plausible]

Love the new menus and like the updated logo, but mostly I love Chani's silks.

[John Slotmon]

My only issue is that I was never a big fan of the forum opening as a separate window, but there's no option from the menu to do anything but open a new window now.