50 Stylish Navigation Menus for Design Inspiration
A site’s navigation menu is one of the most prominent things that users see when they first visit. There are many ways to design a navigation menu – and since almost all websites have some form of navigation – designers have to push their creative limits to build one that’s remarkable and outstanding.
In this article, you’ll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration.
1. netdreams.co.uk
2. Tennessee Vacation
3. Anderbose
4. Alpine Meadows
5. White House
6. The Hole In Our Gospel
7. Cognigen
8. Skatepark Hattingen/Ruhr
9. The Ernest Hemingway Collection
10. Thomas Prior
11. Navigant Consulting
12. The Lippincott
13. Branded07
14. TORRANCE WEB DESIGN
15. Matt Dempsey
16. rzepak.pure.pl
17. Thuiven
18. Africa Tour 2008
19. Bamboo Juice
20. Glocal Ventures
21. Worldwide Blogger Bake Off
22. Agami Creative
23. Aperfolio
24. Games for Her By You
25. Tutorial9
26. Sarah Longnecker
27. Kayintveen
28. Manndible Cafe
29. Creative Spaces
30. David Hellmann
31. Viget Extend
32. Candes
33. Red Nose Day
34. Brad Colbow
35. csharpdesign.co.uk
36. Sarah Hyland
37. okb
38. MacRabbit
39. Cheesetique
40. Nitram+Nunca
41. Satsu Design
42. Africa Oasis Project
43. Nuttersmark.com
44. toby-powell.co.uk
45. GIANT Creative
46. Organic food Ireland
47. Portfolio de Guillaume Pacheco
48. Von Dutch Originals
49. Blue Moon
50. Hey Josh
38 Comments
Alex
April 10th, 2009
Here is another one: http://www.theoworlds.com/ (top navigation)
Kayla
April 10th, 2009
Very cool menus. That’s something I need to work on–creating more visually appealing navigation in my designs. I like all of these, even the most simplistic ones. I can tell the designers put a lot of effort into them.
Jamiel Sharief
April 10th, 2009
Nice collection.
David
April 10th, 2009
thx for sharing!
Danny Hinde
April 10th, 2009
A great selection, website headers and footers are interesting me a lot lately — I’m definitely going to spend a lot more time on my header and footer when carrying out another redesign from scratch.
Caroline
April 10th, 2009
Great list – one missing – http://www.c4yp.co.uk using tag clouds as part of navigation
kayintveen
April 10th, 2009
Woow. thanks man for featuring me!
Tony
April 10th, 2009
decent selection, I would also add really nice slide show navigation of http://www.merixstudio.com and always cool http://mediatemple.net top menu.
Creamy CSS
April 10th, 2009
great inspirational list, thanks for post!
Jacob Gube
April 11th, 2009
@Danny Hinde: I wrote a collection of website footers a while ago, worth checking out if you’re interested. I’ve been meaning to put together a showcase of site headers, I’ll have that written in the near future.
BenSky
April 12th, 2009
Nice collection there, definatley lots to draw from on a creative level, i like 38 and 43 especially.
Jacob Gube
April 12th, 2009
@Kayla: Yes, even the simple ones, to me, were well thought-out of. I always say that there’s a certain beauty that I find with minimalist designs; the ability to craft something beautiful with fewer resources always shows me the designer’s creativity.
Jacob Gube
April 12th, 2009
@Caroline: I must say that I’ve never seen tag clouds utilized like that. And the horizontal navigation bar isn’t bad either, the texture + gradients combination looks better than you’d expect it to.
Kalle Fredlund
April 12th, 2009
Realy nice! tnx!
Callum Chapman
April 13th, 2009
lovely collection of navigation menus here!
Cam
April 13th, 2009
nice! good inspiration
Rene Zammit
April 14th, 2009
very interesting :) keep it up
Anthony
April 14th, 2009
Wow, that’s a great list of menus, I’m currently re-making my own design and this will be more than helpfull
Roberto
April 15th, 2009
Great menus! Thanks for the inspiration.
Fran Jeanes
May 8th, 2009
That’s the best bit of design inspiration I’ve had all week. :) Many thanks!
Neil Gilbert
May 20th, 2009
A great list, thanks! My favorite is #42.
medyum
August 19th, 2009
Nice collection there, definatley lots to draw from on a creative level, i like 38 and 43 especially.
Cara Dixon
October 19th, 2009
Loads of inspiration here! Will prove really useful in the future! These designs and creative whilst remaining unique and individual! I particularly like number 36!
dotndot
January 20th, 2010
Awesome collection of great menus.Thanks…
medyum
February 19th, 2010
Wow, that’s a great list of menus, I’m currently re-making my own design and this will be more than helpfull
Vladimir
May 11th, 2010
Nice collection of Menus you got here, and unique too :)
Aadilah
May 17th, 2010
I’ve got the same problem as you,
medyum
May 18th, 2010
thank you nice article
Padraig
May 18th, 2010
looks cool,lucy
yehya
July 12th, 2010
wooow
puneet
July 14th, 2010
thankyou.the desines are great
medyum
April 16th, 2011
Loads of inspiration here! Will prove really useful in the future! These designs and creative whilst remaining unique and individual! I particularly like number 36!…..
karton adam
June 29th, 2011
thank you.there are lots of inspiration stuff here.
Barry Reynolds
August 12th, 2011
Netdreams is very good, the blue really stands out.
Random Child
September 19th, 2011
Erm this shows different types of navigation.. but they all look the same to me, for exmaple they just highlight or enlarge whatever your mouse is over.
But the website looks nice.
Alan
September 30th, 2011
Navigation is most important part of website for visitors/users, creative and smooth menu will always get admired and impressive.
Maria
October 6th, 2011
Nice useful designs an inspiration
http://www.google.com
Killian Roche
November 16th, 2011
The navigation “bar” on this page is quite creative.
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