[Sigia-l] Rollover Navigation Submenus: Usable or not?

[Jon Nakasone]

Forgive me if this topic has been previously discussed.

I'm in the process of rapid prototyping a horizontal navigation using
buttons with DHTML rollover submenus.  In the midst of this I was told
that this approach is shown to be consistently unusable by many users.
No elaboration was provided, other than this had been a recurring
comment in numerous usability seminars at Marketing conferences (yes,
Marketing conferences).

Now I know what you're going to say and of course I plan to properly
test variations of the navigation with our users, but I wanted to
collect everyone's opinions and experience with this type of
navigation as I've never heard a blanket statement placed on a UI
feature made as insistently as this was.

Many thanks,
Jon


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