# Restructuring the Hamburger menu

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/restructuring-the-hamburger-menu/32860>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [September 3, 2015, 11:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restructuring-the-hamburger-menu/32860 "2015-09-03T11:02:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restructuring-the-hamburger-menu/32860/6 "2015-09-03T17:19:45Z")

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> [@JBert](#):
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> the Phone glyph is puzzling.

That represents the Mobile View / Desktop View switcher. If it’s unclear, then it should probably be a text link instead.

> [@JBert](#):
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> I’m not convinced that menus in menus are a good thing.

My reasoning was, since the list of categories is very long and not frequently accessed, it’d be nice to make it expand as needed. This gets rid of the bulk of the menu when it’s not needed.

This was also mentioned in codinghorror’s suggestion:

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> perhaps have headings for different hamburger menu sections (or even expansions?)

There’s probably a better way to expand the categories instead of a dropdown, but this exact one is already being used and works fine on mobile.

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