November 5, 2024

20 Inspiring Navigation Menus

Navigation is certainly a very important part of web design and an important aspect to think about while designing a page. Today we gathered a few examples of navigation menus to show you. From clean and simple typography based menus to colorful and fixed positioned ones, there are a lot of examples to inspire you.

In Motion

In Motion is using nice and colorful icons to navigate the page.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

zoo.

Fixed header with clean and elegant typography based menu.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

New Gotham

Another good example of effective typography based menu.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

Timberland

Drop down menu that ‘come and go’ as you need it.

Inspiring Navigation Menus
Inspiring Navigation Menus

Kenneth Cachia

Clean website with a minimalist and beautiful menu.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

sparks

A nice HTML5 website with a menu that allow you to drag the marker to navigate or simply click the options.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

New Citroen DS5

Another good example of hidden menu that you use it just when you need it.

Inspiring Navigation Menus
Inspiring Navigation Menus

Moment Skis

Nice and clean typography based menu. Hover it for some color effect.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

solo

Also a nice example of clean typographical menu with hover effects.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

Cameron Reynolds-Flatt

Beautiful HTML5 website with a typography based menu with hover effect. The website also have some pretty neat background transitions.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

Hermetik

Another example of a clean menu that you can hide and use it only when needed.

Inspiring Navigation Menus
Inspiring Navigation Menus

MAD

MAD is also using a menu that you can hide to have a better view of the page.

Inspiring Navigation Menus
Inspiring Navigation Menus

Carter Digital

A cool single page design with nice typographic based menu. Scroll down a little bit and the menu stays in a fixed position.

Inspiring Navigation Menus
Inspiring Navigation Menus

3Degrees Design Agency

Clean and elegant typographical menu with hover effects.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

divups

divups offers different options to please different users. You can scroll down to check the parallax scrolling effect, you can also choose the fixed header menu or the side menu.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

Chimp Chomp

Another beautiful example of typography based menu.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

Analog

Simple and colorful header menu.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

Pongathon

Nice colors and typography. Menu also has hover effects.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

inkling

Clean design with a minimalistic menu and a nice background animation.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

hering berlin

Beautiful minimalist design with super clean typography based menus.

Inspiring Navigation Menus

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Gisele Muller loves communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity. Web writer, portuguese/english translator and co founder of @refilmagem & @mentaway Twitter: @gismullr

20 Comments

  1. Toronto Web Development Reply

    The MAD navigation is silly fresh. Analog is really nice as well. The trick is to be unique without re-inventing the wheel, per say. You never want a navigation to be completely off the wall just for the sake of standing out. A nav’s primary purpose is functional. Unique aesthetics is a bonus (if you can pull it off tastefully).

  2. Mark Zip Reply

    How many of these work if you have scripting turned off?
    I stopped after the first 5. Sure, they look nice if you have scripting on, but I wish they degraded more gracefully than they do.
    Ans I didn’t ever *start* down the road of screen readers…

  3. David Reply

    Like the MAD architecture menu – but not sure how functional that is …. then I suppose my Mum for example probably wouldn’t be looking at such a site 😉

    Thanks,
    David

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