: Use of a hamburger menu for minimalist design on desktop website? Here is a link to my website. My aim was to have a "minimalist" interface, with large font and lots of blank space. The idea

@Sent7350415

In my opinion, you are overthinking here. There are cases where hidden navigation may cause negative user experience. Ask yourself why do you need to hide the menu in the first place. You may simply want to achieve a minimalist look, or you don't want your menu items to distract the user from focus on something important that is on the very page? Or may be you have way too much items to keep in the menu?

Basically, this would boil down to your objectives - your goals. Speaking from the design side, there isn't really a good or bad here. Whether your website is personal or otherwise, it is ideal to define an "audience" for your website and think from their perspective. Try to identify your prospective visitors' (employers offering internships in this case, I suppose) expectations and layout your design accordingly.

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@Samaraweera207

This is really a very broad question, and highly subjective. So, only a personal observation here - sure it's fine as long as all your users know what a hamburger icon is for.

If they are all young, or familiar with phones/tablets/mobile apps etc, then fine. If not, change the hamburger icon to the word "Menu" instead. It doesn't have to be big, and it can still be minimalist.

Another thing - mousing over the hamburger icon doesn't even show up as a tooltip (title attribute). This is something you need to address for desktop sites if you choose to stick with the hamburger icon.

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