Submitter’s comments: Designed to be cool, evidently, but also incredibly difficult to understand its navigation schema.
Vincent’s comments: It’s one of my easiest to understand rules — if you have to explain your navigation, you’ve already lost most of your audience. The only sites where people are willing to learn navigational systems feature naked and/or dead bodies — and this isn’t one of them. Wild Mystery Meat Navigation at it’s finest.
During my speech at the Greater Seattle Business Association last week, I showed a site like this from back in 1997(?). I got the impression that nobody believed navigation like this existed. Here’s proof.
Yes, I realize it’s a museum and a museum is about art but that’s no excuse for crummy navigation. Oh, the mothership uses equally stupid navigation.
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