The Importance of Research Driven Design

Hamburgers originated in the mobile context. It might be okay to use this symbol as long as it's accompanied by the menu text. If you're working with a more techie crowd as your end users, it might even be okay. But I think you should test it and not just rely on what people are tweeting or saying online. The article mentions basically some principles regarding navigation on menus. See if I can pick them out.