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Logo links to homepage 2.0

Have you noticed a new trend on the well-known UI pattern of logo linking to the homepage of the site?

Both Amazon.com and Facebook sport this feature, showing a small “home” graphic icon to further inform naive users that by clicking on the logo, they’ll return to the index page.

Amazon version of logo linking to homepage
Amazon version of logo linking to homepage

Facebook shouldn’t show this all when we’re already in its homepage
Facebook shouldn’t show it when already on its homepage

Notice that Amazon correctly does not show this hover effect on the homepage, while Facebook still shows the home icon even if you’re already on the home page. If you’d like to use this feature, don’t do that - it can confuse users.

I personally like this for sites as huge as Amazon and Facebook, and consider it a nice eye-candy for blogs and the like. It’s the evolution of the traditional link-to-homepage logo idea, made possible by some simple CSS.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 7:52 pm by Sugar and is filed under Web Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Logo links to homepage 2.0”


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    John Tsevdos says:
    February 7th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    The title of this post should have been “What female web designers notice!!!”. hehe Anyway, impressive…

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    Sugar says:
    February 8th, 2008 at 1:49 am

    @John: Oh come on, I’m not THAT nitpicking, am I? :)


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