10 Websites with Keyboard Navigation. The presence of keyboard-navigated websites is surprisingly growing in these days of touch screen devices. Why is that happening? Well, there is still something compelling to push a button (a physical one) and provoke a reaction. The use of the keyboard, makes the navigation experience more engaging and interactive for the user, not to mention it is faster and more comfortable for the hand to push a button a couple of times than to scroll endlessly. Sometimes it is only used in certain sections of a website as this navigation mode works better for repetitive tasks like viewing photos in an image gallery, so the use of the mouse is still required in most of this sites.
Keyboard Navigation. 1 Nice and colorful single page website for ‘Milieubende’, a classroom...General 0 Very clean one page responsive portfolio with flat design elements...Portfolio 0 Nice mini portfolio of Stu Hall.
His site uses full-screen...Portfolio 0 Parallaxin’ one pager by ‘Albino Tonnina’. Nice and simple, with...Portfolio 3 One page website for ‘Tubecore’, a new audio product. Their...Product 17 A flat one page portfolio site for ‘RK Mediadesign’. Their...Portfolio 19 Flat one pager with clean lines and icons. Why Keyboard Navigation is so Awesome. One of my favorite recent trends in web design is keyboard navigation.
Used correctly, it can greatly enhance the experience of a website. Using the arrow keys on sites like Thinking For A Living and Designspiration make the consumption of large amounts of content quicker, easier and more engaging. Google have also recently implemented keyboard shortcuts into their search results, allowing users to quickly browse through instant previews and find what they are looking for. I’ve also just finished development of a WordPress theme – Keybrdr, pictured above – that allows you to use sliding keyboard navigation on your own blog, website or portfolio. So, what’s all the fuss about? How to Create a Website with Keyboard Navigation: PSD to HTML.