Site Navigation

A natural byproduct of making your mobile site usable is to make it easy to navigate. So for that I'll now talk about some common navigation design patterns.

• Tree Drill Down: This is where you take a large collection of data, classify it, and refine what you're looking for as you drill down, usually in the form of a list.
• Header Menus: This is where you provide tabs, buttons, or tools in the header to assist in navigation.
• Footers and Tab Bars: This is where you provide tabs for your user to move horizontally across your site rather than having to use the back button to move back to the home page in order to drill back down to another area of the site.
• Overlays and Modals: This is where instead of navigating to a page you just provide an overlay of information. This is useful when you don't want the user to lose context but the information is not sufficient for an entire page.