Spatial Navigation
Some heartrendingly well-conceived experimentation with spatial navigation can be found over at polarfront.org.For me, the appeal of spatial navigation is in its minimalism. The design is stripped to its absolute essentials, and the content becomes its own navigation. It's difficult to do this well in two dimensions, as I've learned the hard way. The addition of a third dimension allows the design to scale to a practical level. On the Web, Flash is pretty much the only way to do that.
Posted September 27, 2003
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