Love the submenus for Cambridge Research

I have a feeling Jakob Nielsen may balk at this design but I like it all the same.

When you go to the University of Cambridge’s Research section you’ll be greeted with this menu in the sidebar:

Pretty standard fair. But click on any link under Research at Cambridge…

and you get something that looks like the fair-headed child of a menu and breadcrumbs. The pages higher in the menu hierarchy have upward pointing arrows signalling “click me for a higher-level view” while also having a downward pointing nub that invites the user to drill deeper.

Very sexy!