Have you ever gone to a website and had to deal with oversensitive or extremely complicated drop down menus? I’m talking about those sites where you click the nav item and a dropdown menu appears, but instead of keeping it simple, they expand upon it. Rolling over the sub-nav brings out another menu and then maybe even those menus have drops downs. Some menus don’t even have any indication that there is a submenu until you roll over it. Then you accidentally move your mouse off and the either another menu pops up or they disappear altogether. Ok, Maybe I am being a little dramatic here, but regardless it is annoying. Then trying to navigate these menus on a laptop’s track pad adds a whole new level of difficulty. I am sure if you’re reading this blog you already know exactly what I am talking about, but just in case: check out Provo.org

I have seen other UX professionals recommend not using them at all. I however feel they can be very useful IF used correctly. Here’s some examples on how to do it right. Click on the images below to view the sites.







Do you know of any very good or very bad implementations of dropdowns? Leave them in the comments.