Above the Nav

January 23rd, 2014

The splash page of the future?

This emerging design trend can be characterized by text overlaid on huge faded imagery or massive blocks of a site’s latest and greatest content, all of which appears before the site’s main navigation.

I’m calling this recent design trend above the nav.

Examples in the wild:


What do you think of this trend? Good? Bad? With great splash page design comes great user experience responsibility? Chime in below!

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