Sticky Navigation
A menu or bar that stays fixed in place as the user scrolls, keeping key actions and wayfinding always within reach.
Why it matters
It trades screen space for certainty: the way out and the way forward stay under the thumb no matter how deep the scroll. The tax is permanent — sticky chrome rents its pixels from every screenful of content.
Feel it
Scroll the little page — the bar pays rent on every screenful, and buys certainty back.
The numbers
- Worth it when navigation is frequent — long feeds, long forms
- Collapse on scroll-down, return on scroll-up — the rent discount
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