Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menu

I got the idea for this pattern from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox article. According to the article, "Mega drop-down navigation menus" work better than regular drop-downs.

Read the article here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menus.html

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Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) shared this idea · Mar 23, 2009 · Admin →

Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) responded · Mar 24, 2009

The name is a bit misleading. How about “Fat flyout navigation menu” instead? ;)

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Adminjannel (Admin, Patternry) commented · April 12, 2012 2:03 p.m. · Delete

Yep, that's it, I'm glad someone else have "patternized" it already.
vicwue commented · April 11, 2012 7:00 a.m. · Delete

Sounds a lot like http://designinginterfaces.com/patterns/fat-menus/ to me ...

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