Oh wow, moral of the story is that hamburger menus, like every other design decision, requires careful consideration, and has its place in modern app design.
Who knew.
Not using hamburger menus doesn't magically make your app better. You need alternatives. Would I suggest a hamburger menu for a menu with 3 items? No of course not. But if you have an app with 10 core menu items, there's not many alternatives. You could try to force and cram that into a navigation bar with 3 item-categories, which open pages with deeper navigation trees, and that'd tick all the 'why-not' boxes of the menubar the article mentions (like unnecessary clicking, users that can't find their information, don't know where they can go or where they are on the page etc etc).
Fact is that a lot of users are indeed familiar with hamburger menus these days and they're becoming a type of standard just like a back arrow is universally understood, and find their way outside of apps, too. (like the Chrome browser which I'm typing this on right now.)
Combine that with the fact the top navigation bar's title telling you where you are, and a non-crammed side menu showing you exactly where you can go, it's certainly a decent solution for many apps.
Who knew.
Not using hamburger menus doesn't magically make your app better. You need alternatives. Would I suggest a hamburger menu for a menu with 3 items? No of course not. But if you have an app with 10 core menu items, there's not many alternatives. You could try to force and cram that into a navigation bar with 3 item-categories, which open pages with deeper navigation trees, and that'd tick all the 'why-not' boxes of the menubar the article mentions (like unnecessary clicking, users that can't find their information, don't know where they can go or where they are on the page etc etc).
Fact is that a lot of users are indeed familiar with hamburger menus these days and they're becoming a type of standard just like a back arrow is universally understood, and find their way outside of apps, too. (like the Chrome browser which I'm typing this on right now.)
Combine that with the fact the top navigation bar's title telling you where you are, and a non-crammed side menu showing you exactly where you can go, it's certainly a decent solution for many apps.