I always see home in the navigation and it seems redundant. Mainly because I would press the logo to go back home. The argument would go, not everyone knows the logo would take you home especially if we consider different levels of users. In that case, the home button should be in the navigation.  What if we have a big website that has 8 or more items in the navigation? Should we still keep "Home" or should we drop it?   At what point should we keep home? Or should home even be allowed on the navigation? Are there any studies or concepts that back it up?
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I know that it is common behavior to have the logo of a web page be a link to the home page, but should I also have a 'home' link in the navigation bar for it as well?
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I find the .youarehere a styling for the main navigation links causes the text to be a little difficult to read on the also-blue header background. Could we give it a little bit of background colour or something else that would provide more contrast?  For example:    which is the product of the following CSS*:  .nav ul li {     margin: -2px 10px 0 0;     padding: 5px; }  .nav ul li.youarehere {     background-color: rgba(0, 80, 112, 0.25);     border-radius: 5px; }  .nav ul li.youarehere a {     color: #A1E9FF; }   *For bonus points, also reduce the line height for the codeblocks!
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I'm designing a microsite that has all the usual functionality. There's a simple registration/login process.   Is it a bad idea to not have a login page and instead just have username and password fields as part of the navigation?
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As I was using an app on my iPhone, I accidentally hit the home button. I quickly reopened the app. But instead of it resuming where I left off, the app had to load all over again. (This was Clash of Clans and I was in a raid!)  Is there a way to keep an app open in the background?  Such a feature would also allow me to quickly check something and then return to the app that I was on.
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Can we please move the  "Start a bounty" link to be in the same location as all of the other action buttons? It makes no sense to me for this to be buried after the comments - It's an action on the Question. It can be very difficult to locate, especially when your question gets .  I don't think this should be that difficult to implement - it's just moving the location of a design element. Can we please get this button moved?
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EDIT Dec 4 -  We're doing it live! Please post bugs or concerns as questions tagged [top-bar]  We have rolled out our 95% completed top bar for feedback.  Note:   We are still adding a few final features, so if you have a request for a feature that is not there you might hold off on that for a day or two Yes, the bar is black1. Also give that a day or two to sink in.   I also want to specifically address the meta/main/chat links.  I'm very aware that many of you like having the links at the top of the page and that this new version is different.  The thought process behind moving these links is that the "site switcher" should be an automatic place to go when you are on a site and want to go to another one. If you haven't already developed the muscle memory for these links, getting between them required a bit of a cognitive load: You must first decide that you want to switch sites and then you have to decide which area to go to to switch.  Also, we find that less familiar users aren't entirely clear what a standalone link that says "main" or "meta" actually does... Not to mention that it hurts my UX sensibilities that we are dynamically changing links in an element that should be fixed.  It is true that we have added a click in the process, but we have also removed a lot of clicks for other common actions that are much more frequent than switching between main and meta.  All I ask is that you give it a few days and see if the new "switch sites at the top left" paradigm grows on you.  What do you think?  1.  points out that technically it's not quite black.
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Can we get Back to Top Button on  and ?   The reason behind this request is sometimes I scroll down the questions to see the available questions that I can answer, when the scroll bar already on the bottom page I want to refresh the page to find the newest questions. When the whole page already load, the page will display on the latest state (in this case my scroll bar on the bottom page). So when I want to go to top page I must scroll back to the top, maybe if this possible added some button in the right corner like in .
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Attempting to use the site with a Nexus 4.  I came across a question that was a duplicate, so I found the dupe and voted to close.  The only problem:  the button is at the bottom of the modal.  While in mobile view, that means lots of painful scrolling all the way through the question and its answers.  On the normal site this isn't an issue:    ...but on the mobile site...    Here's an example:    This definitely affects usability while on mobile.
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In the new Help Center, we have a banner which is the same as the banner we already had on the homepage for users that weren't logged in. This is the homepage:    And this is the help center:    I'm going to find this banner very annoying. I'm experienced enough to know that.   Could the banner in the help center get a minify-button as well? Something that remembers that he shouldn't show the banner, for always?
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Which 'home' should the microsite's logo link to - the main site or the microsite?  Consider that...    The content and layout of the microsite is the only differentiator  Half the users reach the microsite from the main site.   The microsite doesn't have it's own URL (it's www.mainurl/microsite) The microsite has the same logo and header style (so you almost can't tell you've left the main site)
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Note: I am aware that the site switcher  of the page. This isn't a case of me clicking the wrong icon, it's a case of the site-switcher itself being a link to stackexchange.com (which is  behaviour, and ) for no good reason.      My browser can be pretty slow sometimes, and I often find myself in cases where I want to use the site-switcher . When I do, the site-switcher button acts like a normal link to stackexchange.com.  This is almost exactly never where I want to go when I click that button; pretty much every time I'm clicking on the site-switcher, it's because I want to access&hellip;   &hellip;the meta for the site I'm currently on &hellip;the chat for the site I'm currently on &hellip;one of the other sites I frequently use   These are all things that the site-switcher is great at doing. I'm happy, you're happy, everyone's happy. , on the other hand, doesn't really give me convenient access to any site metas, any chat rooms, or even really any other sites.  Sure, sometimes maybe I want to go to check out the hot questions feed, but if I was going to do that there's now a big "Stack Exchange" logo on the top left of the page that takes me right there (and much more intuitively). Having the site-switcher point there by default might've made sense in the old top-bar before there was a dedicated link, but right now it's just redundant and ultimately only exists to cause pain and frustration for all involved.  If you must have that icon point to somewhere, maybe a page that basically duplicates the site-switcher functionality (Even  would be better; at least that's actually "A list of all 171 Stack Exchange sites" like the mouseover text indicates).  Otherwise, I'd be pretty happy if that button just does nothing at all until the magic site-switching menu code I'm actually expecting actually loads up (which is already how the inbox, achievements and help icons behave when their javascript doesn't load).
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Other than for historical reasons, is there is reason to have “www” in a URL?  Should I create a permanent redirect from www.xyz.com to xyz.com, or from xyz.com to www.xyz.com? Which one would you suggest and why?
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"Three horizontal lines" aka "hamburger icon" seems to be becoming a convention for the "main menu" button, especially on mobile sites:    Has anyone done any user testing of this convention, or got any A/B testing results? (i.e. is there an increase in bounce rate compared to using the word "Menu"?)  I did some quick user testing with wireframes featuring this icon for the main menu. 3 out of 6 people got it and used it. The others did not.  One person in particular had a lot of trouble "getting back to the top" (i.e. restarting their navigation from the top level of the site) as they didn't know about the convention, or that the logo would link to the home page.  I guess it will be different for different demographics - users of Facebook on mobile probably know it.  Anyone got any findings they can share?
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This was talked about a few podcasts ago. And they referenced some other site that does this.  Currently location is a string but adding a country dropdown (and for the usa a state drop down) could be a great addition to the site.  Then allow for user filtering by country / state.
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There are links, buttons, images and much more that directs users to new pages.   In my opinion, it should always stay in the same tab unless it's a PDF or download item. But when is it acceptable to open things in a new tab?
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I have seen some interface designs that nest accordions that show/hide information at more than one level of hierarchy.    The example show also uses both vertical and horizontal hierarchies to add further complexity to the navigation and interaction of information.   I was wondering if this is a common practice for certain types of websites or design patterns, or if it should be avoided because my instinct is that there are some usability issues with multiple levels of show/hide.  For example, if you were to implement a Show All/Hide All functionality, wouldn't it be rather confusing with all the different moving parts for the user to absorb?
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I know that it is bad practice to use a "Go Back" button (since the browser has such a function) but when it can't be avoided for some reason, is it better to put it on top (similar to how the back buttons on browsers are on top) or at the bottom (similar to "cancel" buttons on forms)?  Let's say the page is not a form but rather a "Preview" / "View" page of some sort where user can view data.