Innovative UI

It's like the lessons from years of awful Flash UI's have already been lost to history.

Also, my browser history was a mess. I'm sorry but no, this has little value in terms of innovation or user experience.

I appreciate the purpose of the site is to demonstrate technical skills, and in this respect it clearly demonstrates a grasp of the underlying technologies.

However, any suggestion or implication that this represents good UI reflects poorly on him (or maybe on the person who posted this, not sure if they're the same person). The words "innovative" and "UI" should never really go together as the best UI leans heavily on established practices so as to minimise cognitive overhead. Any innovation should be subtle and carefully thought through and tested, and involve evolution rather than revolution otherwise it becomes completely counter-productive.

Personally, I wouldn't say it's 'innoavative.' The whole point of designing a UI is not to make things fancy and bounce around and look pretty. The point is to make something that's easy to use and clear. I don't think this site fits either.

It's nice looking though!

I will be blunt here and say: The UI cannot be navigated with the keyboard at any rate and the back button does nothing. So as UI it's just bad. Its bouncy/fancy/flashy parts add to the bad and make it terrible in my book.

interesting ideas, but not exactly sure what the goals of the interface are. what ideas inspired you to develop this UI ?

Is it an iframe-like website with a css3 for menu ?

I think there are interesting concepts in that UI (+ in the URL / split screen), but my overall feeling is that it's a bit hard to navigate and it misses some core idea, core theme. I think UI's should evoke a feeling of ease and simplicity and familiarity for a user to feel comfortable using them.

The interesting concepts were overshadowed by my back button being disabled, which REALLY winds me up.

There was no scroll bar for the text in the right hand frame, although arrow keys seemed to work. Also my back button was broken and I couldn't return to Hacker News. (I'm using Opera on a Mac.)

It might be innovative, but it is very confusing. Innovative, but bad.

thanks for the comments everybody! also thanks to the guy who posted this. I will keep all of your awesome advice in mind when making my next web app. In this project, I wanted to focus heavily on creative concepts i felt where neat. Also i'm very OCD about making things look pretty and artistic. I will fix the url history problems thought, did not think of that one.

Innovative, yes.

Intuitive, no.