Navigation is one of the most important parts of a website. Having a usable and intuitive navigation system is essential to helping your users find the content they need, and a poor navigation design can spell doom for any website.
However, usable and intuitive doesn’t have to mean boring. It’s possible to get creative and clever with navigation structure, styling and functionality and even enhance usability while doing it. These days, custom navigation layouts are so popular, there are tools like the ones on this free web builders list that can create it for you, and many WordPress and other CMS themes have options for customizing navigation as well.
In this post, I’ve showcased 30 websites that have truly unique and original navigation designs.
C-ROOTS
Into the Arctic
London LOOP
Oak
ELI
Ringle 39
Streng
Marianne Brandt Wettbewerb
Yang Rutherford
Rijksmuseum
Ballantyne
Schmidhuber
MoMA — Century of the Child
RVLT
Kay Abude
Narrow Design: Nick Jones
Media Arts Lawyers
Fearon Hay Architects
Niketo
Workstead
Heine/Lenz/Zizka
Reverse Büro
ala
Rejane Dal Bello
Responsive Projects
The Mid-Century Modernist
AmberMiro
Black Estate
Steven Holl Architects
