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Having a clean and well-structured website navigation is key in designing an effective user interface. Drop-down menus are great for sites that have multiple levels of content hierarchy. The typical design pattern of a drop-down menu is that when a user hovers over the parent navigation item, a submenu of navigation items appea.

In this collection are many different types of drop-down menus used in websites all over the web for your navigation design inspiration.

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Carreras Con Futuro

This drop-down menu’s design embodies the hand-drawn theme of the website.

Converse

Converse has a grunge-styled drop-down menu that has a cloth-like texture with frizzy edges.

Bern

This rough grunge style website has an edgy drop-down menu that complement the look-and-feel of the website’s general aesthetics.

Ski Alpine

This drop-down menu highlights the attention to detail that the site designer has.

Noizi Kidz

This navigation is bright and shaped unconventionally.

Famous Cookies

This drop-down navigation menu showcases the yummy cookies that the store makes available to its hungry patrons.

Boden

Each menu item has a different font and the drop-down menu is very clean.

Navigant Consulting

The colours used on this site work together like players of a football team.

Fall For Tennessee

Fall for Tennessee has a horizontal drop-down menu that slides out to the right hand side. The menu items that have a drop-down submenu have a small arrow next to them to indicate that they can be expanded.

Mozilla

This is a simple yet sleek drop-down menu on the Mozilla.