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Content first: hiding the UI on scroll

over 9 years ago from Mathieu Mayer, Designer at AQ, Tokyo

  • Pete Lonsdale, over 9 years ago (edited over 9 years ago )

    Hiding things when you have room seems very counter intuitive to me... even bringing them back in focus on hover seems unnecessary.

    What problem did you have with leaving the navigation there in the first place? What are you trying to solve?

    Condensing nav on smaller screens makes sense, doing the same on desktop does not.

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    • Mathieu MayerMathieu Mayer, over 9 years ago

      The demo I made is for reference only. It's just there to show the pattern.

      Doesn't have to be a nav specifically but also ads, metadata, notes. Everything that is not essential to the content experience could be hidden on scroll down, displayed again on scroll up or hover.

      In my demo, hiding the nav doesn't bring much value cause it's just a bunch of paragraph on a whiteish background but I'm thinking of usage in more cluttered UIs...

      I'm not facing any problem at the moment. I'm just wondering whether there is a correct way to put a strong focus on the content by hiding all unessential elements of a page.

      Condensing nav on smaller screens makes sense, doing the same on desktop does not.

      Maybe it makes sense, but not for the same reasons?

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