45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See

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Navigation menu is the most important element in the web design. It guides users to your content and also shows them your site structure. A well-designed and user friendly navigation menu will definitely attract more users to click and browse your content.

Designing a navigation menu is not easy. The designer needs to understand the site structure before start. Furthermore, designer needs to make sure the navigation menu can cope for future needs. One of the example is the number of elements in the menu increase in future.

In this article, you will see 45 inspiring, user-friendly and well-designed navigation menus. Although they may not necessary suit your design, but we hope these navigation menus can bring inspiration to our readers.

Matt Dempsey
Matt Dempsey

paiko
Home at www.paiko.de

Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver



Stucel
Stucel

Web Designer Wall
Web Designer Wall

The English Riviera Comedy Film Festival 2008
The English Riviera Comedy Film Festival 2008

David Hellmann
David Hellmann

La Privata Repubblica
La Privata Repubblica

MacRabbit
MacRabbit

tap tap tap
tap tap tap ~ tasty bits for your iPhone

Dragon Interactive
Dragon Interactive

Kriesi.at
Kriesi.at - new media design

jMar’s Blog
jMar Blog

Housing Works
Housing Works

Nuttersmark.com
Nuttersmark.com

Soh Tanaka
Soh Tanaka

Thuiven
Thuiven

Valley Creek Church
Valley Creek Church

Branded07
Branded07

Carbonica
Carbonica

Ad Fed MN
Ad Fed MN

Rockatee Home
Rockatee Home

eQuality Solutions
eQuality Solutions

kukral
kukral

Timothy van Sas
Timothy van Sas

Clothing + Kindness
Clothing + Kindness

Clearleft Ltd
User experience and web design consultants

Kupferwerk
Kupferwerk

Hugs
Hugs

Manndible Cafe
Manndible Cafe

PixelResort
PixelResort

Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg

Alleviate Poverty
Alleviate Poverty

okb – estudio interactivo
okb - estudio interactivo

Intereactive
Intereactive - Exceptional Web Design

Dawghouse Design Studio
Dawghouse Design Studio

Best Colorado web design
Best Colorado web design

Worship Leader Insights
Worship Leader Insights

TenForce
TenForce

Loodo
Loodo

qrayg.com
qrayg.com

Design Disease
Design Disease

Oink!
Oink!

Cassys Design
Cassys Design

Graphic Design Portfolio of Ben Barry
Graphic Design Portfolio of Ben Barry

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    Awesome Post :)

  • http://studiofluid.com Ben Thompson

    Thanks for sharing.

    The menu we designed for the Pasadena Symphony and Pops might fit well on this list

    http://www.pasadenasymphony-pops.org/

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    Awesome post. Great collection of navigation menus. This collection really rich my menu library :) . Thanks for sharing this nice post.

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    Some great navigations there, thanks for the post.

    Would love to know what you all think of our navigation on our blog…

    http://blog.aqua-creative.com

    Would be honoured to be included in your list…

  • Orlando Guavez

    Nice list!

    PixelResort’s menu is really cool indeed!

    This guy also has a swooping hot menu dezign – http://sean-nieuwoudt.com

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    Great navigation inspiration! I love the website design for estudio interactivo. I like how they have titles and even subtitles for their nav links.

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    Lovely collection of menus in your post.

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    Interesting collection Dicky! Looking forward to more ;)

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    Hi clippingimages.com,
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    Awesome…..Cool List..

    Navigation Menus list @ its Best.

    I love it.. :P

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    Nice creative menu collection. Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing this awesome post. :)

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    Wow ! :)
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    Nice article. Food for thought.

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    Really inspiring collection. Thanks a lot.

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    An Outstanding note-worthy blog I see here. Thanks….

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    Lovely collection of menus….!! I liked the best colorado web design menu.

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    Thanks for a nice share

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    Wonderful work. Outstanding stuff here. Thank you very much for sharing with us such a very good job

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     Great Collection….

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     Great Collection….

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