Course Overview: What You’ll Learn in AI Navigation Design: Headers, Menus, and Information Architecture
AI Navigation Design: Headers, Menus, and Information Architecture
Design navigation systems that users actually understand. Build sticky headers, mega menus, mobile nav patterns, and complete information architectures with AI-assisted workflows.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this course you will be able to ship real, production-grade work — not just follow tutorials. Every lesson pairs a clear concept with a hands-on exercise you can reuse in your own projects. You’ll leave with a workflow, a reference repo, and enough confidence to keep going on your own.
Full Course Breakdown
Here’s every paid lesson you’ll unlock when you enroll:
Information Architecture Foundations: Users, Tasks, and Mental Models
Every nav decision starts with understanding what users are trying to do. Learn card sorting, tree testing, and task-flow mapping — powered by AI synthesis — to uncover the structure your product actually needs before you draw a single menu.
Desktop Header Patterns: Logo, Primary Nav, and Utility Zones
The desktop header is prime real estate and a design minefield. Learn the three-zone anatomy (brand, primary nav, utility), how to pick between top-level tabs and mega menus, and when a secondary nav bar is worth its weight in pixels.
Mega Menus: When to Use Them and How to Prevent Chaos
Mega menus can tame massive catalogs or hide a product's best features. Learn the decision rules, layout grids, and micro-interactions that make a mega menu feel organized rather than overwhelming — with Figma patterns and an AI-generated IA audit.
Mobile Navigation Patterns: Tabs, Drawer, Bottom Sheet, and More
Mobile nav is where desktop shortcuts stop working. Compare the five dominant patterns (tab bar, hamburger, bottom sheet, segmented controls, gesture nav), learn the device-size tipping points, and pick defaults with confidence for your next mobile build.
Breadcrumbs, Sidebars, and Secondary Navigation
Primary nav gets all the attention; secondary nav does the actual work. Learn when breadcrumbs help (and when they lie), how to build collapsible sidebars that scale from 10 to 200 items, and when a second-level horizontal tab bar beats nested menus.
Search, Filters, and Command Palettes as Navigation
At scale, traditional nav breaks and search becomes nav. Learn to design fast-typeahead search, faceted filters that act as nav, and the command palette pattern (Ctrl/Cmd-K) that's taken over productivity apps — with copy, accessibility, and empty-state patterns.
Accessibility, Keyboard Paths, and Testing Your Nav
A nav that tests well with a mouse but fails with a keyboard or screen reader isn't done. Learn the WCAG 2.1 AA requirements for navigation, how to audit with axe and Lighthouse, and how to run a 15-minute 'keyboard-only' sanity test on any design before handoff.
Who This Course Is For
- • Product designers who own the nav but keep getting nav-rework tickets
- • Founders who need to organize a growing product without a redesign
- • Developers who end up implementing nav and want opinionated defaults
- • UX folks moving from simple sites into multi-surface apps
What Makes This Course Different
Hands-on, Not Theoretical
Every lesson ends with a working artifact — code, a deliverable, or a reusable template — not just ideas.
Evergreen, AI-Native
We focus on durable patterns you can apply across tools. When the model changes, your workflow still works.
Real-World Examples
Drawn from actual shipping products, not sandbox demos. You see the tradeoffs professionals make.
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8 total lessons · Lifetime access · Start today
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