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> There are a lot of interfaces that are suffer from issues with discoverability and understanding, and even when a user figures this stuff out one time (or is showed it), the interface is not memorable.

Oh, dear, God, yes.

The "hamburger menu" is one of the worst travesties of the modern age.

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What's wrong with the hamburger menu? It seems like a good compromise of quickly accessible functionality for little screen real estate. For desktop apps with plenty of screen real estate it's crazy (looking at you gnome) but on mobiles it's fine, especially when the alternatives seem to be some sort of hidden and undiscovered slide out menu or long button press.

It's been proven to be misunderstood globally.

Just the word "menu" is more beneficial.

English isn't understood globally.

Either you'll translate the contents of the menu anyway and take care of this or you won't and having a universal icon to access an English only menu doesn't help.

The problem is that you have no idea what is under that menu.

The hamburger menu becomes a default dumping ground substituting for an intelligently design UI.

I'm reading this on Firefox with a hamburger menu. It's a hard sell that someone else's supposed damaged discoverability is worth me giving up screen space to replace it with a menu bar for things that are rarely used. If they can't work out to click on it, they're not going to find much use from the things that are in it.

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