The already impressive TIme magazine designed for tablets is improving. If I were a magazine editor I’d be very excited right now.
Archive for the ‘Layout’ Category
Time magazine reinvents the magazine
11th June 2010Do you have a Flavor?
5th February 2010Flavors.me is a new social media aggregator, that lets you collect your identities and output from a range of common networks and show them all in one place.
Not very exciting or unusual, in and of itself. But what makes Flavors a bit special is the really simple, attractive interfaces you can create using it – think “interactive business card,” but certainly more fun!
We’ve been tinkering with it at 3Sixty this morning, using the invite code heat.
BBC’s Big Personality Test
24th November 2009The BBC has launched a new online questionnaire as part of their on-going Child of Our Time experiment.
What’s most interesting about this test is the results; rather than leaving you with paragraphs of dry analysis to read, the BBC site actually explains your results via a sequence of personalised videos.
It’s a really engaging way to relate interesting information that typically ends up relegated to a big stream of boring text.
The Graphic Exchange
23rd October 2009I’m always on the look out for inspiration and I can’t believe that I’ve never come across this resource before. Jam packed with fantastic work, separated into categories. One for the bookmarks!
The Postcode Newspaper
19th October 2009Newspaper Club, a service created to help people make their own newspapers, has been experimenting with the newly released beta of Data.gov.uk – and with impressive results.
Aimed at informing UK home movers, the system will mine freely-available data on a given postcode – including local services, environmental information and crime statistics – and then format the results into a newspaper for ease of consumption.
Aside from being incredibly useful, the presentation of the data is also beautifully crafted and immediately readable.
An open letter on bad design
5th June 2009
Designer Dustin Curtis was so disgusted with the American Airlines web site that he redesigned it, and posted the results as an open letter to the company.
Guess what? One of AA’s designers responded with a long defense about why better design dies a slow death at places like AA.
Some interesting thoughts and feedback, from someone actually within American Airlines’ web team, about how and why great design is crushed by dispersed corporate structure and disparate business needs.
(Curtis’ redesign is really nice and clean, too.)
Form over function?
13th May 2009
Take a look at the US site for Crumpler bags. The Flash version that loads by default has some lovely touches and creates a feel for the brand that would be hard to emulate in pure HTML/CSS.
But are the compromises that are made in terms of user experience worth making? I’d be interested in seeing a user test of sites like these. Personally I find my patience wearing thin very quickly. But I doubt I’m representative.
Nice bags though!
Google says: “Do more with less”
30th April 2009An interesting – albeit visually bland – piece of IA by Google, in an effort to promote their marketing tools during the downturn:
Big Pictures are in. The ‘fold’ is out.
29th October 2008
What do you think? boston.com
Apparently the use of the big picture has doubled traffic to Boston.com year on year.
Times
22nd April 2008One font—and all set in HTML, too: www.seedconference.com
Pete Fairhurst
Jonathan Waring
Martina Welander
Andrew Arnott
Chris Thurling
Iwein Dekoninck
Matt French
Kate Thorpe
Laura Fletcher
Dave North
Bonny Colville-Hyde
Nick Raven
