Interactive, animative relationship links

Been trying to wrap my head around what really happens when people click around in big websites, lately… a navigation conundrum (I’ll post that later) and it lead me back to an old favorite… VisualThesaurus and a similar VisuWords. The later has had an upgrade since I last looked at it, and it’s pretty neat. Maybe only for grammarians (hey Leigh!) (or purists of any persuasion), but wow…

Two features you have to love: click on a dot (node) and drag it to rearrange the …output, and it responds; wave over a dot and a fly-out appears with details.

Someday, desktop software and Internet search (…results…) will work like THIS (and we won’t miss the prior paradigms).