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 [...]
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… ;-)
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 [...]
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.
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…
A nice way to remind people to enter a search term and prevent searching the whole database, which might take some time! Note: This video clip has no sound.
They’ve installed new taps in my office building – some people hate them but I think they’re not bad. Because it’s a multi-purpose tap, the designers have included a forcing function to help avoid scalding incidents – You have to make a deliberate action to get the tap to dispense hot water to make tea, [...]
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