Designing App Navigation with Material Design Principles
The designer of Abduzeedo is rethinking navigation for a new Android app using Google's Material Design. Inspired by Newstand and Play Store, the concept combines vertical scrolling for content and horizontal for categories, though horizontal navigation limits interactions and discoverability. A Keynote prototype explores exposing navigation on scroll or pull-to-refresh. The app hierarchy is simple: article teaser to full view as a modal. Next steps involve HTML/JS prototyping on phone.
Key facts
- Abduzeedo is designing a mobile app and web for Android using Material Design.
- Navigation inspired by Newstand and Play Store.
- Vertical scrolling for content, horizontal for categories.
- Horizontal navigation limits further horizontal interactions.
- Discoverability issues with hidden categories.
- Keynote used for simple motion prototyping.
- App hierarchy has two levels: teaser and full view modal.
- Next step: HTML/JS prototype on phone.
Entities
Institutions
- Abduzeedo
- Newstand
- Play Store
- Facebook Paper
- Wired Magazine