Navigation Design
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Navigation Design
Zara UX Teardown: The Homepage That Doesn't Scroll
A UX teardown of Zara's public store: a homepage one screen tall, navigation reduced to grey hairlines, and a catalog that won't quote a price until you type into the search box.
TYPENORMLabs · 7 min · August 16, 2026
Information Architecture
What Is a Taxonomy in Information Architecture?
A taxonomy is the agreed set of categories and labels a product files things under. What it is, how it differs from an ontology and a folksonomy, the three shapes it can take, and how to build one from card sorts instead of a whiteboard.
TYPENORMLabs · 7 min · July 31, 2026
Navigation Design
Mega Menus — When and How to Use Them
A mega menu shows a site's whole structure in one panel. Here's when a mega menu earns that space, when a plain dropdown wins, and how to build one that's fast, scannable, and accessible.
TYPENORMLabs · 6 min · July 15, 2026
Navigation Design
Breadcrumb Navigation — Patterns & Best Practices
Breadcrumbs show a user where they are and how they got there. Here are the three breadcrumb patterns, when each earns its place, and the accessibility and SEO details most teams miss.
TYPENORMLabs · 6 min · July 16, 2026
Patterns in the Library
Component patterns related to this topic — from the Component Library.