63% of Users Can't Read Your Icon-Only Navigation Nielsen Norman Proved It.

That clean minimal bottom nav you designed? 63% of your users are guessing what it does.
Not an opinion. A Nielsen Norman Group study.
In this video we put two navigation bars side by side — icons only versus icons with labels — and show you exactly where the confusion happens, why one word fixes it completely, and how YouTube gets this right on every single screen.
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