Interactive design · Own business
Lithorium
A mineral and rockhounding site that opens in an orbit view: five sections around a ring of drifting particles, with a one-click switch to ordinary navigation.
- Role
- Design & development
- Period
- 2025 to 2026
- Status
- Live, still being built out
- Platform
- Cloudflare Pages
- Built with
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Canvas particle engine
- 5
- sections around the orbit
- 3
- earlier navigation designs kept beside the shipped one
Navigation as the first screen
The home page is the navigation. Shop, Stories, Learn, About, and Explore sit around a ring of drifting particles, each with its own color and a one-line description on hover.
The orbit view
An exit for everyone
New visitors get two choices, got it or make it normal, and a persistent How do I use this site link. The orbit is opt-out, so nobody is stuck in an interface they did not ask for.
Three versions first
An SVG radial menu, a ring version, and the shipped particle orbit are kept side by side, with written notes on why each one changed. The particle field is its own small engine.
Scope & limitations
The site is still being built out.