Having a great and user-friendly navigation menu is important for any website to give visitors a good experience and to help them navigate to the content they need, it is an important requirement for SEO and it helps in site ranking. When designing a website it is useful to look for Navigation menu PSDs as a source of inspiration and to find usable design elements.

This may speed up the design process and also help to overcome the design of difficult elements by having a look at how others solved it. Besides doing the hard work yourself it is also an option to pick a ready-to-use CSS navigation menu plugin that should work on any type of website.

WordPress users are typically spoiled as there are so many nice simple WordPress themes with great-looking navigation and WordPress navigation plugins.

In this article, you will find plenty of inspiration to get started designing your own navigation menu on Photoshop.

Simple navigation menu by Pawel Kadysz

This is a simple navigation menu with a dark mega sub-menu.

Free PSD – 6 Navigation Bars by Design Beep

This navigation menu PSD set includes 6 Navigation Bars with fully layered and easy to modify every element including colors and patterns. All the fonts and icons are free for personal and commercial uses. You can change to whatever you like. You can easily resize the navigation bar.
You can use both for personal and commercial projects.

Awesome Navigation

This is a set of 3 awesome navigation styles (FREE PSD)

Drop-down navigation bar (Free PSD) by duck files

Neat and simple navigation menu bar for a corporate website. Clean style. Unlimited levels. The current menu item is available.

Slick Menu

Slick Menu comes in a variety of colors such as Blue, Aqua, Pink, Mustard, Purple, and Lime. A perfect unique blend of colors tailored for your future web project.

Dark Menu PSD by Ahmad Hania

The Dark Menu is designed to look simple, stylish, professional, and attractive. This resource has all layers intact, with menu items normal, hover, and active states, it has also a design for a dropdown. You can customize and use this resource for web or interface design projects or simply as a learning material to see how it was designed.

Free Ribbon Navigation PSD by WillyEpp

This is a really great-looking navigation menu using ribbon as the finish.

Pop Up Black Sleek Buttons by Layer Lovers

Pop up Black Sleek Buttons Lined with Pink Diagonal Striped Bar under Green and Pink Flowers Navigation

Candy Coated Red Navigation by Layer Lovers

Same concept as the previous but with the new color palette. A glossy candy-coated red finished tabbed navigation on a detailed wood grain texture background. CSS, JavaScript, and PSD files included

Greyscale

Grayscale is Mac Inspired and fully editable. PSD file with FREE grayscale web elements for your website or another project.

Dropdown Navigation Bar by DuckFiles

This is a navigation menu for different types of websites. Good base for a future web design. The .PSD file has a good hierarchy. It is ready to customize.

Black and Silver Navigation by easy display name

This menu PSD contains a black and a silver design where active menu items look like they are cut out or pushed down. The light effects are pretty good and worth using.

Modern menu & GUI elements PSD

This is a set of modern menus and related GUI elements in PSD format. These ribbon-style menu and web elements are pretty handy and may be helpful in your next creative web design.

Iconic Navigation Menu bar PSD by CSS Junction

Here you find a free navigation menu PSD that is silky, high contrast, and with icon + texts for menu items.

Profile Menu by Hector Ardila

Different but cool navigation meant to be used as a profile menu. Idea saw on a community site project.

Pretty dropdown menu by Pawel Kadysz

Great looking dropdown menu PSD with icons. Two-color schemes for both light and dark backgrounds. You can change the color of the menu with just a few clicks.

Navigation PSD Pack

7 Layered Navigations in black, blue, red, green, orange, pink, and grey.

Mini Navigation Daniel Sandvik

Simple and clean menu layout in light and dark colors.

Yellow Navigation David Bradley

14 Free Custom Web Navigation Menu PSD by Download PSD

The PSD set consists of 1 PSD file with different Navigation Menu Styles and color variation.? This layered PSD is arranged in groups and named perfectly. You can modify this PSD according to your needs. All menus are editable, you can easily update color, change the size, remove text. Rollover states and sub-menus? are in their own layers and groups.

Navigation Free PSD by WillyEpp

Another dropdown design available as a Photoshop PSD file for free download

Horizontal Dropdown Menu Bar by Adrian Pelletier

Horizontal Dropdown Menu Bar is a PSD file with a clean menu design. Dropdown menus are one of the most commonly used elements in web design.

Simple Dark Navigation Menu (PSD) by Orman Clark

This is a clean and simple dark navigation menu PSD ready to be picked up.

Stylish Navigation by sirjeffoakley

Navigation menu PSD with 3 ready-to-use menus.

Dark Button Navigation (PSD) by Orman Clark

This is a simple navigation menu made up of a series of buttons and a single search field

Header & Navigation Pack by Adrian Pelletier

Header & Navigation Pack is a PSD file with 3 different styles of header and main navigation designs. Each design includes normal, hover, and active states for the links

Checkout Process Navigation (PSD) by Orman Clark

Not really a traditional navigation menu, but a checkout process indicator or navigation – an absolute must for any eCommerce operation.

Free Colored Web Menus by MosheSeldin

Here you find several cool Looking Colored Web Menus In a Single. PSD

Clean & Simple Navigation Menu (PSD) by Orman Clark

This PSD provides a great design for a clean and simple navigation menu.

Bold and Chunky Navigation PSD by Liam McCabe

Simple dark navigation menu PSD with a good-looking mouse over effect.

Plaid Navigation by Layer Lovers

This is the full package… navigation design + source code from Cloud Nine Labs.  CSS, JavaScript and a fully layered .psd included.

Premium tabbed navigation by Layer Lovers

This PSD offers a cool tabbed navigation with icon images.

Vertical Navigation Menu (PSD) by Orman Clark

In this PSD you will find a sweet and simple vertical navigation menu with styles for sub menus thrown in for good measure.

Elegant Ribbon Menu by Adrian Pelletier

Elegant Ribbon Menu is an attractive, ornate PSD file with three different ribbon colors. The layers are well organized and creating new menus with your own color choice is very easy.

Breadcrumbs Navigation PSD by Liam McCabe

Navigation menu PSD for designing a breadcrumbs function.

Sexy Dropdown Menu by Web Designer Aid

This is a nice dark dropdown navigation menu PSD where the dropdown overlaps the main menu area.

Free PSD Source – 2 by prkdeviant

Simply menu for that could be useful e.g. for an upcoming WordPress theme or portfolio site. It is available in all that 4 colors.

PSD navigation menu by PSD Graphics

10 unique website navigation menus with rounded corners, for your web project. Used glossy style. All menus are editable, you can easily update color, change the size, remove text and export it in a necessary file format. Rollover states are in their own layers.

Pixel Navigation by Layer Lovers

A sheik looking black metallic navigation on a pixel background.  The author has included CSS, JavaScript & .PSD!

Mega Menu Navigation Free PSD by Victor  Osea

Mega Menu Navigation, perfect for an e shop website. You can modify the PSD to suit your needs.

Website menu PSD by Martz90

Menu Notification Badges (PSD) by Orman Clark

Included in the download (layered PSD) is a navigation menu which is a nice little bonus. The main freebie, the badges, come in 3 colours giving you some options to play with.

Dark Navigation Menu (PSD) by Orman Clark

This dark navigation menu can be dropped straight into a bunch of different designs and you’re good to go. Included in the download (PSD) is of course the navigation menu bar itself and two varying hover or active states

3 color borders navigation by goldhand88

3 color border-style navigation.

Clean, Crisp Settings Menu by Taiyab Raja

clean, crisp settings menu (PSD) for all your menu lovers. The download includes a fully-layered PSD ready for use.

Author: Lars Vraa

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development, SEO, social media and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools, etc., and to write articles for tripwire magazine readers.