Benchmark Web Navigation
At Stratagon, our client had a huge website and the navigation was difficult to use. Working with "very particular" decision makers on the client side and our talented developer, we explored a range of solutions in pursuit of a more streamlined experience.
The final chosen design utilized a large, but not full-screen dropdown with a clean column structure. The mobile experience was similarly organized to maintain consistency, with an expanding sub-level approach.
As an exploration on the opposite side of the complexity spectrum, we considered a dramatically scaled-back version of the navigation to guide users toward key starting pages for the most important topics/sections, providing a deeper link list in the footer for the regular visitors who knew what they were looking for.
In response to the client's request, this concept displayed all available navigation options in a single view. However, we later convinced them that adopting such an approach would be overwhelming for desktop users and present several challenges in responsive development.