For me, the biggest issue I see with the example hamburger buttons there is that they don't look like buttons --- they look more like an air vent/grille, a stylistic thing rather than "touch here to get more".
Agreed, but if the trend continues eventually it will become known as the menu. It took my way to long to figure out what the hamburger did across all the apps and devices. I really disklike it in firefox and chrome on desktop, it seem unwarranted, but I guess firefox's change is just conforming to what the designers see as a common icon set.
I see two issues with menu / option icons.
1. There is no universal icon. There is the 'up' arrow on some IOS and android apps, the '...' on android, and now the hamburger. The fact that the hamburger doesn't look like a button will become irrelevant once the general user associates it with a menu. I personally don't like it either, but all I really want is consistency.
2. Related to this consistency, the hamburger button doesn't always perform the expected function. Both of these are UX issues that cannot be easily standardised. It really is noticeable when it 'breaks' the flow of the application by changing the state of the main window instead of offering a menu. I can't recall which apps I use do this, but I remember being frustrated, much like the abuse of the back button on android (I think google play breaks this on the My Apps sections).
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Agreed, but if the trend continues eventually it will become known as the menu. It took my way to long to figure out what the hamburger did across all the apps and devices. I really disklike it in firefox and chrome on desktop, it seem unwarranted, but I guess firefox's change is just conforming to what the designers see as a common icon set.
I see two issues with menu / option icons.
1. There is no universal icon. There is the 'up' arrow on some IOS and android apps, the '...' on android, and now the hamburger. The fact that the hamburger doesn't look like a button will become irrelevant once the general user associates it with a menu. I personally don't like it either, but all I really want is consistency.
2. Related to this consistency, the hamburger button doesn't always perform the expected function. Both of these are UX issues that cannot be easily standardised. It really is noticeable when it 'breaks' the flow of the application by changing the state of the main window instead of offering a menu. I can't recall which apps I use do this, but I remember being frustrated, much like the abuse of the back button on android (I think google play breaks this on the My Apps sections).