Here are websites I find really interesting:
St-Francis is Happy in Greenville: the website of an hospital directed at the origin by Sisters. Love the childish animations, very simple. Also, they are never the same. Very fluid, not too long to load.
Christian Sparrow: the website of this new media/ website designer. Very talented, very creative. You can see is diversified portfolio.
Get the Glass: A website hosting a game. you need to help a family to get back the glass of milk. Good 3D animation. The whole screen becomes the playing board. However, it is sometimes longer to load.
Goblin Creatives:A website of a multimedia/website/interactive applications company. I LOVE the way we see the site through an iPod. It's amazing how the rooms are loaded and while you're waiting, you can even play games. Two thumbs up!
Lexus GS: Actually, on this one it's the video that I love. However, the way things are loading, the animations are nice and clean. The main page is amazing and I like how you can decide the opacity of the windows. Quite helpful to navigate through the website even if I don't get a word of what they say.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
MOD3000
The beginning of the semester had been quite stressful.
Last semester, I realized I was interested in fashion accessories design. So I talked with Martin Racine and he suggested me to take fashion design courses at UQAM.
So that's what I did. Then, the first day of school, I received a phone call from UQAM saying I need to change my course for this semester. So I harassed the whole staff at student affairs to get this case done before the due date.
Anyways, now I'm registered to MOD3000, a course called: Recherche de matieres, de thematiques et de tendances. I had my first class this morning and that's what I realized:
Fashion design is tightly connected to furniture design and interior decoration.
One influence the other. At the end of the semester, I'll be able to identify the future musts of the next year seasons. How helpful is this!
Last semester, I realized I was interested in fashion accessories design. So I talked with Martin Racine and he suggested me to take fashion design courses at UQAM.
So that's what I did. Then, the first day of school, I received a phone call from UQAM saying I need to change my course for this semester. So I harassed the whole staff at student affairs to get this case done before the due date.
Anyways, now I'm registered to MOD3000, a course called: Recherche de matieres, de thematiques et de tendances. I had my first class this morning and that's what I realized:
Fashion design is tightly connected to furniture design and interior decoration.
One influence the other. At the end of the semester, I'll be able to identify the future musts of the next year seasons. How helpful is this!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Productive Interaction
I think this article is very interesting and clarifies a lot of things that were still vague in my mind.
Even if this article is much more adapted to websites, the whole research process can be adapted to all kind of design.
It's incredible to see how a website can be way more interesting only by how interactive it is. It is way more entertaining than a simple unidirectional website. Also, as Van Allen mentions, interaction implies that the audience actually make choices, take decisions and do the big part of the job. That's how you create a complete experience.
Also, I think it's much more difficult to create this kind of interaction online, because it is abstract, non-tangible. Interaction is so easier when you can touch and feel the object in your hands, or at least see it right in front of you. This way, it directly talks to you and have an effect on you. Websites need to go over this boundary and take their place. Also, another difficulty that might confront web designers is that they don't know who's going to see, read or simply visit their page. However, they still need to interact with all these different persons and create a special experience that will be meaningful for all of them.
I really like Van Allen's idea of Physical Music I. The whole process of creating music makes me think of a certain DJ which I forgot the name who creates whole songs with small pieces of music joined together. This guy also make these kind of songs live in after hours or big events. I mean, to me it's a big deal, so I really like how Physical Music makes it easier so anybody could use it.
I think this article is very helpful and provides a lot of solutions and different ways to be interactive. Before reading this article I thought that an interactive website consists more in a flash animated site where the users could decide what they would do in this flash-animated space. However, the article clarifies many things and is a kind of mix-and-match guide to a successful interactive experience. Thumbs up for Van Allen.
Even if this article is much more adapted to websites, the whole research process can be adapted to all kind of design.
It's incredible to see how a website can be way more interesting only by how interactive it is. It is way more entertaining than a simple unidirectional website. Also, as Van Allen mentions, interaction implies that the audience actually make choices, take decisions and do the big part of the job. That's how you create a complete experience.
Also, I think it's much more difficult to create this kind of interaction online, because it is abstract, non-tangible. Interaction is so easier when you can touch and feel the object in your hands, or at least see it right in front of you. This way, it directly talks to you and have an effect on you. Websites need to go over this boundary and take their place. Also, another difficulty that might confront web designers is that they don't know who's going to see, read or simply visit their page. However, they still need to interact with all these different persons and create a special experience that will be meaningful for all of them.
I really like Van Allen's idea of Physical Music I. The whole process of creating music makes me think of a certain DJ which I forgot the name who creates whole songs with small pieces of music joined together. This guy also make these kind of songs live in after hours or big events. I mean, to me it's a big deal, so I really like how Physical Music makes it easier so anybody could use it.
I think this article is very helpful and provides a lot of solutions and different ways to be interactive. Before reading this article I thought that an interactive website consists more in a flash animated site where the users could decide what they would do in this flash-animated space. However, the article clarifies many things and is a kind of mix-and-match guide to a successful interactive experience. Thumbs up for Van Allen.
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