What's on the menu?

"This file has become very important, since when I started the restaurant in the United States since the middle of the 19th century there was almost nothing, because there was not anything big, after 170 years the actuality of Americans How you change experiences will be clearly vivid in these materials. "

 - Paul Friedman, Eastern partner: creator of spice and medieval imagination, food editor: history of taste

"For people studying cooking and meal methods for people, there are abundant kinds of ingredients in the menu of restaurants, there are few other comparable resources, but for obvious logistic reasons it is impossible Examine this huge amount of information.This project will open a menu, and they will open menus, and they will be open to menus, materials, food and meal structure, diet economics and sociology, and food We can talk to them about languages. "

So, can we ask which menu is best for us? Result: The menu reminds us why we are here and organizes the information based on what is important to us - these encourage us to make thoughtful and decisive choices. Ignoring what is important for us, we can scroll, look, buy, click, regret us by mistake. I hope these ideas and other similar ideas will be part of the general wisdom of designing human systems. Prior to this, the designers had to learn a reasonable social and personal vision. If you want to design a better world, designers need to have different opinions to people.

Today there are few owners writing menus. The restaurant spends time and money on experts, creates beautiful menus with elegant depictions, and prints them. The menu will be updated 3 times a year on average according to customer's needs. The cost of this work is from several hundred dollars to several thousand dollars, and these costs are irrelevant (for example, you can gain insight about the menu).

Today, the hamburger menu is everywhere. Every designer knows what kind of things it represents. Menu with more information, options to select from there, menu with additional functions. It is popular as it not only saves screen space by grouping together all secondary and tertiary information but it also creates a cleaner design and creates a comfortable space. It is perfect. It is not too fast. Since hamburger menus may be visually efficient, many web designers and product managers feel that there is a problem. A shortcut that was previously a user to access other information has become a curtain that hides the content and blocks the user's actions. Josh Constine writes to TechCrunch like this. "Basically, invisible things are incredible." "All navigation options hidden behind a hamburger are forgotten, or at least not used much."