Yesterday Wired.co.uk released a new web app which offers a new way to browse around the Wired website, it is called The Wired Mind. This web app, like many others, works very well in IE9 because of the HTML5 and hardware acceleration and it did feel like an app not a web page.
It’s a very attractive web app and it allows users to browse the articles on the site through related tags. These tags appear suspended outside someone’s brain, or mind, that is composed of moving cogs. When hovering over a tag the user is shown 3 articles that have been tagged with that keyword, it possible to then cycle through other articles than the first three. If the user clicks on one of the tags then they move through “the mind” to a set of related tags where the same interactions are possible. Any tag can be shared on Twitter and Facebook.
This web app looks and functions really well and is not like any website I have seen before. I’d encourage you to take a look as it is fun. Are there any regular Wired readers out there? Do you like this way to navigate around the site’s content? Anyone know of any other interesting web apps for browsing around a website in a non-traditional way? Please let me know.
