Category archives: UI design scrapbook

Zombie infographic

The Book Depository just sent me a newsletter reviewing the buying trends of 2011. In the list was this fun infographic on the sale of zombie related books and graphic novels. It reminds me that a lone zombie is slightly pathetic, but a horde (the proper collective noun) is terrifying!

Is the Independent website hosted on an old Amiga?

I haven’t seen a Guru Meditation since 1993…

3 website designs in harmony with their product

It’s quite satisfying when a website manages to reflect its subject matter fully through its visual design. Here are 3 sites that achieve this special kind of harmony.

A nice way to place items in order

I saw this nice use of Flash while taking part in the BBC’s Big Risk Test. This question asks you to place various everyday activities in order of risk. The designers save you time here by automatically inserting the items in a tidy way while indicating exactly where you originally placed them (a line is [...]

UI serendipity

I’d love to think this happened by accident, but I think it’s more likely that the BBC web team gave it a little nudge… ;-)

Plagiarism or inspiration?

You can imagine the scene in the boardroom – “We want to sell more stuff on the internet – Let’s brainstorm – who sells lots of stuff on the internet? Amazon does! So let’s just copy them…” A shop like GAK should know better than to mess with the intellectual property of a giant like [...]

2 rupee coin with accessibility features

India’s 2 rupee coin shows an image of two fingers as well as the number 2 – essential in rural areas with low literacy levels.

Crazy pop-out menu

Site navigation not obvious enough? Why not use the traditional UI design method of slapping a great big pop-out chameleon on your site! People tend to notice that…

What to read next when you get to the bottom of the page

Example of an unobtrusive hint