Once upon a time I get deeper into Google Material designing. While studying specs and guides, suddenly some weak solutions was revealed. So I discovered GMD still raw guide, containing a lot of leaks.

Let’s imagine how could we improve hamburger menu (I know that you supposing now like “Damn, one more guy talking about hamburgers, fed up”). But I’m not gonna talk about the interaction. Let’s keep it as it is. I’m talking about flipping the primary action bar both in X and Y axes.

For example, it’s the state how things happening right now:

(green shape is average reachable area for your finger, as consider you holding your phone with right hand)

Here is simple idea of mine

Quite radical…

Let’s get another point of view according to reachability, mentioned above:

When you tapped you might be seeing right aligned navigation:

And YES, it’s now reachable:

Can you remember GMD tabs?

You don’t need to get your finger too high. Failed tries. Just switch between tabs using only one finger.

No doubts you’ll be pointing at the hierarchy and saying like “Title is the primary, and the body comes after”. It’s the result of snapping action bar to the bottom. Indeed, I’m agree. However, perhaps we have to compare the value of title, and the value of reachable hamburger icon. I bet on second idea :) And you?