Posted by Courtney | Jun 17th, 2008 4:15pm
Why haven’t I seen this before! My good friend Ashley Siebels sent me this link after seeing it for the first time at Flashbelt in Minneapolis last week.
This is a global news site…
With really cool filtering features…
…and a compelling visual organization. Article titles get larger based on popularity and number of visits.
Cool, ha!
Posted in Fun, Information Architecture, Interface Design & Prototyping, Internet, Navigation, News, Social Media & Emerging Technolgies
Posted by Annette | Mar 28th, 2008 4:04pm
This video has been making the rounds. If you have not already seen it, check it out. It’s well done and so true!
“Your site design is the first thing people see
it should be reflective of you and the industry
easy to look at with a nice navigation
when you can’t find what you want it causes frustration”
“design and code right man I hope you get the picture
what I’m telling you is true man it should be a scripture
if it’s built right you’ll be the pick of the litter
everyone will want to follow you like twitter
competition will get bitter and you’ll shine like glitter”
Full Lyrics…
(more…)
Posted in Information Architecture, Interface Design & Prototyping, Internet, Navigation
Posted by Jennifer | Mar 3rd, 2008 9:16am
Alternate and future forms of navigation was a recent topic of discussion on a mailing list I read regularly. It is important to be open to new approaches to the work we do, so I went to visit some of these sites.
The most interesting and future thinking was the site Don’tClickIt.
It is a site that is navigable without clicks. It is a very different experience to browse a web site on a computer without clicking. I found it to be very peaceful, I’m sure it will be unnerving to others. 
Here’s the link if you want to give it a try.
There’s even a little social media in the mix, you can leave comments on what you think of the experience. I took a screen shot of my comment.
There are some issues with an experimental interface such as this. For example, it’s not up to accessibility standards. However, it’s an experiment and most of the time experiments don’t follow standards quite yet.
Posted in Information Architecture, Navigation
