Swiss airlines challenge your understanding of website navigation. Browsing their page, you can feel how conventional our understanding of document space is. Here, instead of scrolling up or down, we dodge our way between the clouds. Tiles Tiles_Windows8 On the other hand, if you are comfortable with rectangles, a cool way to structure your content is by creating tiles. For some reason, tiles in web design sell better than the Windows 8 Metro interface. Tiles work well in responsive layouts and, at the same time, remain a cool way of forming impressive layouts. If sticking to tiles becomes too boring, the layout may be pushed further with irregular zigzag edges, pushing objects or bringing the text across the edges.

Navigation widgets dailybeast_s Experimenting with navigation has been web designers’ favorite playground for many years. “Playing” with navigation peaked when websites were designed purely in Flash. The decline of Flash brought us quieter menus, devoid of animation or eccentric interactivity. But edgier navigations have been on the rise again, thanks in part to special leads new web design potential, and the growing inefficiency of existing navigation models in using across multiple devices. This is made easier thanks to the wide use of Java Script through Java’s constant evolution (via frameworks and plugins) and the more consistent interpretation of modern CSS across all important browsers.

Here are a few examples of navigation experiments and trends. Some of these ideas are already widely used, while others are pushing the envelope towards a new kind of “modern” web design. Sticky menus less_s This type of menu expands a relevant item’s submenu as you scroll. It works well on one-pagers with lots of content. The LESS manual page is one of the most comfortable to use “manual type” webpages we have ever encountered. Website via Less CC. A Sticky Menu is a kind of menu that stays glued to the top or edge of the screen while you scroll. Like it or not, it’s becoming a standard for one-pagers. Sometimes it’s combined with a scrollspy script to create a widget accurately showing your position on the page. It’s useful, especially with long hierarchical menus.