There have been a lot of articles lately about a particular ex-Microsoft UI designer (Jragon on Reddit) who has been publicly defending the use
of hamburger buttons.
Not exact matches
In the Anniversary Update, the Start menu will feature a navigation pane with a
hamburger button on the top - left corner, and the user profile
button has been relocated to the bottom
of the pan above the Power and Settings
buttons.
Some have ambiguous
hamburger buttons at the top, some have pivots with text that you can understand, some have transparent live tiles, some don't, some correctly pick up the system theme colors, some force an ugly out -
of - place color on the user instead.
The Recently added section, meanwhile, now shows three entries instead
of one and any additional folders you've added to Start will automatically appear without having to open the
hamburger button.
Next, you need to click the
hamburger button to the right
of a feed; then, drag that feed to the position you wish it to play in your Flash Briefing and drop it there.
Personally, we are fine with so - called
hamburger buttons, but we would much rather see them kept near the bottom
of apps for easy access instead
of the upper left corner.
Now, new mockups
of Microsoft's Delve app is stirring up debate about whether Microsoft should use the
hamburger style
button, opt for the waffle type design or something altogether different.
The slim column
of icons on the left side is consistent with the design
of the built - in Windows universal apps, with a
hamburger button available to expand that column to include labels.
They're buried in the
hamburger button and you can't even see an indication
of new messages when you launch the app.
He left Microsoft a year ago and most
of his conclusions are based on usability study data that's probably from back when the
hamburger button first started seeing some use.