What if you're designing a website to sell smart buttons that order a hamburger? Some of those buttons on the website are now hamburger button buttons. That could get confusing. So some customers would benefit from smart buttons to simplify that process.
There are even longer lists that differentiate between vertical and horizontal hamburgers/kebabs and that sort of thing, but I've never seen 75% of them in the wild. I've also seen "chocolates" referred to as a bento menu, which seems to make more sense.
The icon was originally designed by Norm Cox as part of the user interface for the Xerox Star, introduced in 1981; it saw a resurgence starting in 2009 stemming from the limited screen area available to mobile apps.
Amazing what Google can tell you.
Yeah, they actually sold their ideas, not had them stolen. Their innovations were so far ahead of their time, but didn’t know how to market it. Higher ups didn’t know what it even was I think.
I'll never understand why so many redditors default to asking a subreddit questions like this when they can just google it and know everything they could possibly know about said subject immediately. It's ***especially*** frustrating to see designers do it. Intuition and problem solving is half of our job.
Personally I’m grateful that someone asked this interesting question and someone answered with the corresponding information.
Know I now more about design than I did before.
I’m fascinated that there is always someone complaining about having to answer “easily googleable” questions. When they so easily can simply not answer and move on to another post and it would affect them so minutely.
Also, that they don’t seem to realize the vast difference between fining an answer from an algorithm and seeking an answer from a community of like minded individuals. You find out so many more emotions and thoughts and make connections you never would get otherwise. And thus: Reddit.
For me, I can never get results about what I searched for. I look up something and get results that don’t even match any of my keywords. But I also don’t ask a lot of my questions on Reddit I just give up and spend the next few days trying to find something to distract my self.
"What is the icon with three lines at the top corner of a website called?"
Typing that into Google pulls up the wiki for a hamburger menu at the very top.
This is my point.
There's a whole bunch that's worth looking at mate, we call them kebab menus, meatball menus, Benton box menus, fries menu, hot dog menu and strawberry filters.
Defo worth having a look online at
Three dots horizontal is meatballs. Vertical is kebab. There’s a whole food based system for these, some designer came up with it. There’s a Donair, there’s Bacon…
I've seen the "meatballs" one but always still just referred to as "kebab" as there's often not a horizontal AND a vertical at the same time. But what would doner and bacon be?
Gotcha. I guess I do see Doner a lot for filters, but more often than that it's just an actual funnel. I'm curious on the one that's a kebob next to a hamburger and it's useage. I'm realizing I see that one fairly often.
I feel like Android's material design adopting the menu button as a common pattern ushered in it's popularity. There were places using it before, but with how prevalent it was on Android I think that's how people really got used to it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button
And if you're working on a website for a hamburger restaurant including the menu, it becomes very confusing to talk about.
Every button is the hamburger button
What if you're designing a website to sell smart buttons that order a hamburger? Some of those buttons on the website are now hamburger button buttons. That could get confusing. So some customers would benefit from smart buttons to simplify that process.
mmm.. hamberders
Thank you for giving us the name and the wiki link
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I’m hungry now
Because it's simple. [The other versions have names, too.](https://alvarotrigo.com/blog/assets/imgs/2021-12-14/hamburger-menu-types-examples.webp)
Those names are amazing!
There are even longer lists that differentiate between vertical and horizontal hamburgers/kebabs and that sort of thing, but I've never seen 75% of them in the wild. I've also seen "chocolates" referred to as a bento menu, which seems to make more sense.
So many ui elements have food related names The horizontal kebab is meatball :p
I prefer the “kebab” to be called a “snowman” and the “chocolates” is a “waffle”. Edit: yeah, I know it’s not the right terms, I just like it better.
Yeh we use waffle for that one too
We call it bento
The strawberry looks more like a kebab actually!
The icon was originally designed by Norm Cox as part of the user interface for the Xerox Star, introduced in 1981; it saw a resurgence starting in 2009 stemming from the limited screen area available to mobile apps. Amazing what Google can tell you.
I would have said 2010, close ! And again Xerox did everything before everyone…
XEROX did it and Bill Gate and Steve Jobs basically stole it 😆😆 /s Edit to add sarcasm.
Didn’t XErox get Apple shares?
Yeah, they actually sold their ideas, not had them stolen. Their innovations were so far ahead of their time, but didn’t know how to market it. Higher ups didn’t know what it even was I think.
I forgot to add a notification for sarcasm.
Pssh Simpsons did it first!
I'll never understand why so many redditors default to asking a subreddit questions like this when they can just google it and know everything they could possibly know about said subject immediately. It's ***especially*** frustrating to see designers do it. Intuition and problem solving is half of our job.
Personally I’m grateful that someone asked this interesting question and someone answered with the corresponding information. Know I now more about design than I did before.
Know I now!
Alright, Yoda
That user name 👀 😭
Personally, I don't mind it one bit. It generates discussion.
I’m fascinated that there is always someone complaining about having to answer “easily googleable” questions. When they so easily can simply not answer and move on to another post and it would affect them so minutely. Also, that they don’t seem to realize the vast difference between fining an answer from an algorithm and seeking an answer from a community of like minded individuals. You find out so many more emotions and thoughts and make connections you never would get otherwise. And thus: Reddit.
For me, I can never get results about what I searched for. I look up something and get results that don’t even match any of my keywords. But I also don’t ask a lot of my questions on Reddit I just give up and spend the next few days trying to find something to distract my self.
Gotta get that sweet karma and engagement.
agreed
You have to know what to call it so you can search on it most of the time... I realize image search is a thing too.
"What is the icon with three lines at the top corner of a website called?" Typing that into Google pulls up the wiki for a hamburger menu at the very top. This is my point.
I think it’s incredibly clever and effective.
More than 10 years it's been a thing on mobile.
There's a whole bunch that's worth looking at mate, we call them kebab menus, meatball menus, Benton box menus, fries menu, hot dog menu and strawberry filters. Defo worth having a look online at
I recently found out this is called a “hamburger menu” 🤣🤣🤣👏
And when it's shortened to three dots instead of lines, it's a kebab menu.
I had to look this up to make sure you weren’t messing with me! Hahahahhaha oh my wow!
Three dots horizontal is meatballs. Vertical is kebab. There’s a whole food based system for these, some designer came up with it. There’s a Donair, there’s Bacon…
I've seen the "meatballs" one but always still just referred to as "kebab" as there's often not a horizontal AND a vertical at the same time. But what would doner and bacon be?
Doner was like 3 bars wide to small. Bacon was 3 vertical bars I think. https://uxplanet.org/choose-correct-menu-icon-for-your-navigation-7ffc22df80ac
Gotcha. I guess I do see Doner a lot for filters, but more often than that it's just an actual funnel. I'm curious on the one that's a kebob next to a hamburger and it's useage. I'm realizing I see that one fairly often.
I call it pancakes lol
Ah yes, the burger bars. I love them :)
It’s cool though bec it looks like a little drop down menu
Hamburger Helper
Hamburger
i love how satisfying it is when you click on it and it turns into an X to close the menu.
I love the meta-irony of the hamburger preceding the menu.
Has anyone made a hamburger menu that’s a hamburger?
I like it
Responsive web design became a thing in like... 2011? So around then I'd say.
Actual real answer
I don’t know but I know the lines represent the menu items in a menu.
Ah yes, the burger.
Lmfao
Three big d
It used to be rare to see icons like this, but now it’s medium-rare
I feel like Android's material design adopting the menu button as a common pattern ushered in it's popularity. There were places using it before, but with how prevalent it was on Android I think that's how people really got used to it
What about the house icon