The hamburger button has become a common symbol on our smartphones, tablets and computers. But, Chris Stokel-Walker asks, what is it, where did it come from, and do people really know what it means?

The three-line 'hamburger' menu icon receives a lot of vitriol. It is variously described as “controversial”, “notorious” etc. but it is rapidly becoming the de facto symbol to open a navigational ...

The hamburger icon is a classic. Even if you don’t know it by that name, its three black bars are as familiar as your mouse’s cursor—a constant companion on your cyber journey since the day you got ...

Insiders call it "the hamburger": Three stacked lines, usually in the top left- or right-hand corner of a website, which people can click to see a menu of pages on the site. Once considered an ...

In the Internet Archaeology rubric, we discuss some very familiar Internet standards that we often don't even notice. This time we would like to draw your attention to the menu icon. Have you ever ...

It’s no secret that Steve Jobs was inspired by the incredible work Xerox was doing over at PARC Labs when he came up with the Mac: he borrowed the computer mouse, the desktop, and even the Macintosh ...

The three-dash graphic that is clicked or tapped to display a menu on screen. The analogy is a list, and the metaphor is the three-layer hamburger: bottom bun, meat and top bun. See ellipsis. THIS ...