Nutility: Navigation by Resizing

Sleek design and an innovative navigational structure. This korean design studio uses an unconventional method to allow browsing through their portfolio: you need to drag and resize the display box. Not only that, they teach you how to do it before letting you in. I think that's important, and that's what I want to highlight today.

At this point, we have seem lots of attempts of innovative navigation and UIs everywhere, few of them really successful. A few weeks ago, we were discussing here about this very same subject: the best way to introduce innovative concepts on user interfaces. Since then, I've found two things that can really make the difference:

- Place traditional methods along with the new ones.
- Instruct the users on how to user your methods.

The later is nicely implemented in Nutility's web site. The 'educational' process is long enough to show you exactly what you need to do in order to manipulate the proposed navigational system, and short enough not to make it boring. Great example.