< Nate Smith
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hehe i totally agree with you... it is "horribly unintuitive"
if anyone cares where i'm coming from with it:
i was studying for my level 1 professional avalanche course (which i'm in the middle of right now) and i was drawing some symbols in illustrator that represent different snow compression test results to help me study.
i decided to whip up a quick nav based on a snow pit. for those that don't know, you basically dig a big hole in the snow and then investigate the layers and do a bunch of sciency shit with it.
hence, as with a snow pit, with the nav on my site you have to 'dig through the snow' and find layers. each layer tells a story... of a snowfall, a bond to a different layer, or, in this case, a project.
different projects are given different thicknesses and symbols representing various things, as with snow.
from more of a design angle - i definitely wasn't trying to make it usable, i was trying to have a bit of fun and i do hope that (while not intuitive)you at least find it interesting!