Innovative UI

I will be blunt here and say: The UI cannot be navigated with the keyboard at any rate and the back button does nothing. So as UI it's just bad. Its bouncy/fancy/flashy parts add to the bad and make it terrible in my book.

I appreciate the purpose of the site is to demonstrate technical skills, and in this respect it clearly demonstrates a grasp of the underlying technologies.

However, any suggestion or implication that this represents good UI reflects poorly on him (or maybe on the person who posted this, not sure if they're the same person). The words "innovative" and "UI" should never really go together as the best UI leans heavily on established practices so as to minimise cognitive overhead. Any innovation should be subtle and carefully thought through and tested, and involve evolution rather than revolution otherwise it becomes completely counter-productive.

thanks for the comments everybody! also thanks to the guy who posted this. I will keep all of your awesome advice in mind when making my next web app. In this project, I wanted to focus heavily on creative concepts i felt where neat. Also i'm very OCD about making things look pretty and artistic. I will fix the url history problems thought, did not think of that one.