Crysis-inspired Menu / Navigation

The big interaction problem that I always have with circle menu's like this is that when you use it for the first time, without knowing how it works, it's like mystery meat.

You click, drag, release mouse, something happens, too fast to see it, since it auto-selected the link in the edge you dragged to, and opened it in a new window. Now i've completely lost my context and have to do the same thing again after I close the tab, Now i'm on a desktop, but on a tablet this would be even more annoying.

I have this same UI on Snap Camera on my phone (try it, it's still awesome), and i've seldom had such a love-hate relationship with a UI. The rate at which you select something by accident, and unexpected behavior happens is just too high.

I like it. Here's what would make it really useful to me: Hold Ctrl, highlight wanted item using arrow keys, release Ctrl, corresponding action is performed. If the menu is large, with a lot of items, allow Ctrl-<key> shortcuts. If I could use this while never touching the mouse, I'd LOVE it.

This is awesome. Seems to break all links on the page though. I tried clicking the ribbon in the right hand side of the screen and the menu kept popping up. Maybe triggering a stopPropagation event on page links should be all is needed to fix it.

They've been around (documented) since 1969... not just since crysis... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu

Interesting..

That's fucking cool! Although it will be hard to put into practical use.

:)

That is freakin sweet!