GameInformer has an entire article devoted to Skyrim’s menu system.

Matt Bertz quotes Skyrim’s game director Todd Howard:

”You know in iTunes when you look at all your music you get to flip through it and look at the covers and it becomes tangible?” game director Todd Howard asks. “One of our goals was ‘What if Apple made a fantasy game? How would this look?’ It’s very good at getting through lots of data quickly, which is always a struggle with our stuff.”