Richer internet experiences popping up… like rabbits…
Posted by: Todd in flash, flex, work, webI’ve always been interested in the user’s experience. Ask my coworkers at Booz — sure it was cool they could make a database that tracked and manipulated all the cargo being taken up to, or returned from, the International Space Station — but if the interface wasn’t equally or more powerful that the logic behind it, I complained…
So it pleases me immensely to see richer experiences showing up all over the web recently. (and not because I moved to a comany who is all about making that happen).
(well, not only).
I’m especially happy to see those experiences NOT target at geeky, internet savvy, uber-users. When it reaches the general public, that’s good stuff.
Andy posted about how rich internet applications made a cameo on The Office.
And then Kellen forwarded us an email about the Sony Bravia website. It’s very design-y and has a lot of interaction, feedback, and experience built in. It makes you want to see what else is under the other areas. Much MUCH more engaging than a flat website… The cube and navigation effects are interesting, and the interface is catchy, if not intuitive. We followed on the email with a discussion about how we get lots of requests for cubes, etc. For serious, daily use applications, maybe not the best design… but for an occaisional, marketing, kiosk, emotional punch it works well.
Now, if you go play with the website, find the Rabbit claymation section. Watch the commercial and then the making of. Nothing to do with Rich Experiences… it’s just really cool.
… and my dad told me not to be an art major…
… you see how well Pre-Med worked out…
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December 13th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Yeah, and after 4 years of theater my parents suggested that was a fine hobby but I should consider a “real major” that would lead to a career. And look what I’m doing instead of my dissertation. We rule.
But man, that Bravia site bugs me. With two big Powerpoint presos and three other Safari windows open, their site took about 15 seconds just to finish loading; they’re already losing me. And I can’t use my trackpad to select whatever menu option was directly behind whichever one I was using when I escaped to the main menu — because I had to track the mouse left to make the cubes spin right, but I had to go past the one I wanted to really see it front and center, and when I went back to click on it it moved away past me going the other direction. I had to move it to a 60 degree off-axis position to click the damn thing, where it was entirely illegible.
You damn artists.