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: Who first used three stacked bars as an icon for "menu"? The three stacked bars for a menu (known as a “hamburger menu”) seems like a pretty new concept. Is there any canonical information

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The three stacked bars for a menu (known as a “hamburger menu”) seems like a pretty new concept. Is there any canonical information out there about who created this icon?

I’m curious because it has become a pretty famous and widely used icon for “menu” in the past few years.

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@Heady304

Here are a couple of great resources that explain the origin of the hamburger menu: Who Designed the Hamburger Icon? & A Brief History of the Hamburger Icon . As the articles state, the original designer is a man named Norm Cox who designed it for the Xerox "Star" personal workstation.

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