
Well-designed, attractive menus can improve the user experience of using a mobile app and greatly contribute to its overall functionality. Smooth integration into a comprehensive, user-friendly interface is the key to what separates good menu design from excellent design.

Horizontal menus have been the status quo for mobile app menus for years, and are well-suited for smaller sized screens. However, side menus are not necessarily inferior when it comes to improving the mobile app experience. Indeed, there are numerous examples of side menus with design and execution which rival even the most amazing horizontal menus.

Detailed stacks of links, dynamic execution, and enhanced search functionality are just a few of the possibilities when choosing to use side menus.

When these benefits are combined with a talented designer’s creativity and skill, the result is usually a mobile app menu that is both sophisticated and stylish. Those who aim to design a mobile app menu which combines good looks with rich features would do well to consider using side menus.

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