The article challenges the conventional belief that visible navigation is the best practice for desktop menu design, citing research that focuses on task-oriented user behavior. While clear navigation aids in task completion, many users browse websites without specific objectives. In exploration mode, excessive visible navigation may contribute to decision fatigue and distract users from engaging deeply with content. The author advocates for design strategies that prioritize sustained attention, particularly in content-heavy contexts such as storytelling and long-form reading, suggesting that sometimes less is more in web design.
A lot of the time we're in exploration mode rather than task mode when we're online - quite literally 'browsing' the web.
I'm a big advocate of designing for sustained, focused attention, especially where storytelling or long-form reading plays a key role in what you're designing.
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