Website Design like Magazines

I think we all need to be a bit braver in our designs with regard to the imagery and layout and treatment of typography.  Also treatment of images with light or laser through them to spark a focal point or indicate a journey.  Heres some images that could get you inspired…

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

Less is More

Imagine if you could have an organisation so diverse that that there were thousands of images and concepts you could choose from, so much you could say, and so much history and product innovation timelines you could choose from to display on your homepage.

But then you decided that all of that banging on a drum wouldnt achieve anywhere near as much impact as 1 image with a scaled back clean white website.  This is exactly what GE have done.

Deb.

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

Browse better!

PicLens have come up with a better way to search for images. Its a browser add-on, and uses a never-ending wall to display image results from google (or flickr) in a more natural way than simply by ‘page’.

Its faster than normal too because it constantly grabs the next images coming up. So by the time you want to see more, they’re already loaded. (& heaps better in Firefox)

Deb.