Interactive Climate Map

Bravo to Vattenfall the Swedish Energy company for being original in creating a climate change map, rather than a traditional operations map.

Deb.

The Role of the Wireframe

After reading an article by Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path – I’d like to hightlight it for you guys too. It sums up the conversations we’ve often had about the role of wireframes in relation to a project. Peter writes:

“I think the role of the architecture diagram, user flow, and wireframe belongs very much after the fact, after we’ve sketched and prototyped an experience. Those are tools to document what has been agreed through sketching and prototyping. They are not the best means for solving challenging design problems.”

You can read the full article here: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/08/20/pencil-and-paper-to-live-prototype-whered-the-wireframe-go/

Kalpesh

ENI’s interactive flash share chart

Most share charts Ive come across are pretty dull, however ENI have come up with a fun way to encourage its users to explore the chart’s peaks and troughs throughout the year.

Thinking outside the square, UNIQLO’s ‘TRY’ site

Uniqlo’s Try site takes the user on a lucid dream-like journey through a maze of customers answering sections of a random questionnaire using videos that float in the shape of numbers which are the overall statics for that answers for that question. Not sure whether it really promotes their products to me, but it kept me entertained on the site.

Web 2.0 widget overload?

I wonder what feedback the Orange Group (AKA France Telecom) have gotten from their very web 2.0 website? You can customise their corporate site to suit your taste by moving around boxes or closing boxes but does this really make the site more engaging?  Distracting, yes, engaging – I disagree.  I think I spent 15 mins playing around with the widgets and then got bored.  Now that Ive left the site I cant even remember any messages that stood out to me.

web 2.0 widget overload

Deb

DHL goes interactive

DHL is a huge logistics company. What better way for visitors to explore their broad scope across the globe than to have an interactive log book. Its filled with staff stories, video, interactive diagrams showing their processes, and a nicely-designed interactive flash map.

Deb.

Volkswagen’s interactive car customiser

Volkswagen’s new website shows a very crisp display of flash interaction and customisation, allows the user to create and save their own model spec with different colours, engines etc.

From a design perspective I’d note the interactive object swivel for the product gallery and embedded image of the car ‘driving’ across the screen.

Gabriella Alexander