Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by Raphael on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @09:30PM (#5335632)

I've always found the 2-stage menu a major annoyance. Navigation always takes way too many steps: 1) hover "Department" if the window isn't wide enough; 2) hover category; 3) decipher the crazy sub-menu that appears to the right; 4) move mouse over and click the same category.

I've always disliked doing this many steps. Please make the Department menu into links such that I can avoid the sub-menus.

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Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by dylangs1030 on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @11:51PM (#5336167)

You honestly find the demonstration in this link to be too many steps? It takes less than a second to navigate. Literally.

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Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown by lancewiggs on Thursday March 07, 2013 @02:02AM (#5336515)

Yes. It drives me batshit crazy, and I avoid using these menus, and it decreases my propensity to use sites that depend on them. To me a menu should be simple. If I click on something I expect to go somewhere, not have my screen taken over.

Short takeaway - we are all different, us users, and what someone thinks is awesome design, someone else finds unusable. So providing multiple options is a must.

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