Future Navigation
Hidden menus, like the hamburger menu, have shown to be counterproductive when it comes to the user experience. The reason for this is due to that the hamburger menu was a quick solution to better handle a navigation bar for the mobile version of websites. However, this has become such an industry standard that no one is changing this practice. Today, this standard practice is becoming out of date and needs to be replaced, but with what? What would it look like and how it will function? Can it be used only on mobile or can it be a holistic element?
In order to answer these questions, I would do a deep dive to see how people are handling navigation, test to see what type of menu people like (header nav, hidden menu, footer nav, side nav, etc), use the collected data to come up with new designs and test those designs to see what the new navigation concept will be.
This will be done by in-person interviews, finding sources and insight from people working on this problem, on and offline user testing, and applying cognitive psychology principles.
The final deliverable will be a small exposition and documenting my process, data, and the solutions that came out of this case study.
Glad you decided to go with this concept. I think something you should think about while working on your project is how to convince people that the hamburger menu is a problem. It very well may be a poor design choice, but as we saw in our last class not everyone may be aware about the problems with this design.