From the course: Interaction Design: Design Patterns as Building Blocks
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Tabs
From the course: Interaction Design: Design Patterns as Building Blocks
Tabs
- [Instructor] Tabs are a familiar pattern for organizing information. They contain information using a navigation menu to hide and show elements, depending on which navigation item is selected. We touched on tabs briefly when designing the global navigation. But the rules for global navigation are slightly different. The tabs and menu items for global navigation govern the entire site, so you can link off into different pages in the site. When the tab pattern is used within the context of the page, the common paradigm is that the user will remain on the page. They usually aren't navigated anywhere else. Tabs control the visibility of elements within a container, so you can view the information corresponding to the tab selected. Tabs aren't the right pattern if the amount of information exceeds this tab container. For example, if you have 12 tabs on a container, that might be a signal that the information should…
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