The New York Times online has put together an extensive hub of interactive media and journalism covering what to look for during the remaining hours of this election day. Check out this guide for in-depth reviews and coverage so that you don’t miss out this evening.
Nau finally relaunched it’s new site today. They’ve worked hard to refine the UI of their new ecommerce site in a way that weaves numerous ‘lifestyle’ features of their brand throughout product. Read Entire Post…
I came across this captivating installation posted on Core77 today that blends hidden technology with simple tangible forms- 714 metal balls to be exact.
This piece completed by ART+COM for BMW showcases a new way to blend aspects of space, motion, and time. The morphing display accommodates the company’s ninety year history of design examples in a fixed location.
I’d be curious to see if the automotive industry begins using this approach to display design concepts to the public before they go into model production. I think some type of variation on this type of display could be extremely effective for visualizing space and forms. Granted, metal balls could be substituted for something else less distracting, but seeing forms at scale is an excellent way to grasp a design concept.
Say goodbye to the tedious hassle of having to accommodate the ‘yeah, but is it searchable’ discussion into your interactive design critiques. Google recently announced a huge improvement in the way it indexes searchable data stored in Flash files. For the longest time, the formula for interactive designers was:
Flash = Bad SEO
And for all of us web designers who weren’t designing sites for highly recognizable clients like Nike, we were left to design fairly static, somewhat non-interactive pieces for clients that required the best search optimization as possible. There are many workarounds, but quite frankly I’ll be stoked to say goodbye to all the loopholes I had to jump through every time I had to establish a direction for a site.
You can read the Google blog post here.
