Another Smashing Magazine Article

Here is an article from smashing magazine on how to improve your interfaces. It has some nice CSS tips built in as well - I've been playing with their tips a bit and it really makes a difference!

10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your Interface Designs

Website

Here's one that's full of tutorials on how to make cool video effects in Adobe After Effects, it plays mini-videos when you mouse over the tutorials...

videocopilot.net

Here's a good one for up and coming technology and gadgets...

http://gizmodo.com/

-Wayne

Website Layouts I like

Here's a Few:

Kotaku
(Drop Down Menus on menu bar across the top of the screen, comments section with expandable comment trees, and multiple versions of the front page (condensed vs. expanded)

Rockstar Games
Interesting and highly stylized layout.

Let it Burn
(Though I liked their last version better, this site still looks nice.)

YTMND


-Richard Trevisani

Interface

Clark and Michael

I like the interface of this site cause it's simple but there is a lot to look at and there isn't empty space. On the homepage alone there is a scroll bar, animated buttons, a video, pictures, and a lot of links.

-Brian

Website Design

I don't know many interestingly designed websites, but here's a try...

http://www.drukqs.net/

Alex Schmoyer

Website Design

Principals of Design

Unrelated to the interface examples, I thought i'd post this set of articles on principals of effective design that i found today. They're pretty easy reads and are very informative:

Design in Theory and Practice

2 Sites

Here are two websites that I thought have a good design to them:

http://www.carsandcars.pt/ - (in spanish, but you can still appreciate the work that went into it)
http://www.burton.com/ - an american snowboard company with a great looking website

-Orry

website.

I just  like Adidas website every time. I actually big fun of them, they are really cool this time using flash and videos.

http://www.adidas.com/us/homepage.asp

http://www.adidas.com/campaigns/originalsss2009/content/#/lifestyle/party

Daisuke Ito

A site I found with a cool interface:

http://www.dontclick.it/

It's sort of weird, and I don't really get the point of it, but it's fun to fool around on.

Emily Neary

Interesting Interfaces

Since there are many different types of interfaces on the web, I thought I'd post two that I feel are really great examples of one of my favorite types of interface. What I like to call "The scrolling interface" (maybe that is the technical name, maybe not... I don't really know). Usually, sites with only one type of content or a single subject matter work well for this style of interface (i.e. portfolio sites - which was why I chose it for this class). These interfaces are effective because they keep the user interested by creating a playful, dynamic way of interacting with the content without a whole lot of clicking (which nobody likes doing). Oh, and the greatest part about these sites.... NO FLASH! So here we go...


Sursly.com - online portfolio of Tyler Finck, Webdesigner

I've been a fan of the design of this site for awhile. It features a very simple linear design but is very effective at keeping the user interested with a normally dry subject (portfolio) through it's use of "analog" transitions: http://www.sursly.com/


Nile Inside - Some sort of russian art site i think?

I can't read russian, but I'm still a fan of dynamic scrolling interfaces and i like the expandable items: http://inside.nile.ru/#years-2008/

Interesting Web site's

Here are some site's that I thought were simply yet fun. Take a look.

http://www.deathonline.net/movies/mm/autopsy.cfm

http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/

Chris Gladitz

Reaction to the Rhizone

First, the language used in this chapter is, well, sophisticated, perspicacious jargon (pun intended). That is not to say that the language takes away from the intent, just the understanding at times. I am one to explain things as straight-forward as I can, so when someone is describing the internet having "rhizomatic, arborescent inclinations," I tend to drift off. Again though, I do not mean to diminish the integrity of the chapter, I just had to get that out of the way (this is my first blog so I'm guessing that just means I'm writing my thoughts down)...
Anyway, there are two main things I had a reaction to with this chapter. This Rhizone these two men speak of is something that I have always had a lingering thought, just could never ascribe a word to. I mainly had a philosophical vantage point of this rhizomatic web. Philosophy, to me, is so full of similar ideas that for me, or anyone for that matter, to wholly subscribe to just Existentialism, just Descartes, just Buddhism, just Taoism, just Objectivism, just this or that is ridiculous. So many different philosophers have similar ideas or thoughts that there has to be a web of connections, heterogeneity, etc. This thought though is such an undertaking. Imagine trying to actually become knowledgeable of so many philosphies and then be able to tie them together into one web. It's almost impossible. That's where the multiplicity and "assigning rupture" play into this idea. Multiplicity is pretty self-explanatory, even in this regard: there is a multiplicity of knowledge, ideas, information, etc. This mulitiplicity is intrinsically inclined to multiply itself, which then amounts to a philosophic web that is almost never going to end. That is not to say that I can't connect certain ideas and begin my web, it just means that it is never going to end as long as new ideas emerge.
The second thing I thought about was exactly the topic of the chapter: how easily this idea relates to the Internet. I want to know when this was written. By the use of borrowed sentences. I'm guessing it was written in the mid-to-late 90's, which means these two men who coined this idea were definitely on the right track as to the destination of the Internet. It is a web. And our first assignment is most likely a manifestation of this idea; a way to get us to make use of the rhizomatic Internet.
Lastly, attacking Noahm Chomsky eh?

Alex Schmoyer

85% off Adobe products for Temple students

Not sure if anyone is interested in buying Dreamweaver or Photoshop, but here's a link for discounted student licenses of Adobe products for Temple students/staff/faculty:

JourneyED.com