Here we go again. This site, CampMinder, displays illustrated versions of its staff members on its home page. You can hover over them for their names and job descriptions. Love, love it.
Click the image to check it out yourself!
This website represents a frozen yogurt company in Indonesia called “Sour Sally”. I was browsing a design inspiration site in the website section and, from its thumbnail, this one looked to have a lot of personality. Once I visited it, though, I understood why it was featured.
When you first arrive, you’re given instruction on how to navigate. I actually glossed right over these, being the ad-blind person that I am, assuming it was just some lame copy about the product. This common reaction, along with the fact that it’s done completely in Flash, are its weak points and more than likely why we don’t see this type of thing more often.
Once I figured out how to fly up to the menu in the clouds, though, I was in awe. The interactive design, very video game-like, definitely left an impression on me. And as web development grows and matures, it’s exciting to think that we’ll have better solutions for creating this type of site– possibly even in HTML 5. Anyway, you should check it out for yourself!
Googled “last-minute halloween costumes” and came across this cute little page at halloween.com. I have to say a good amount of the ideas were stretching a bit too far or maybe sounded better on a page than they probably would do in real-life– especially as a joke you’re carrying on for an entire evening– but a few of them were pretty darn clever.
My favorites:
Like a majority of people in my profession, I love to read articles at smashingmagazine.com.
One thing I haven’t paid much attention to before, though, is their use of vector characters. The cartoon people actually represent the employees themselves! How cute is that?
I know I always like to see photos of “the people behind the product” when I’m reading blogs or admiring other designers’ work. I’m not quite sure what makes the cartoon-version even more satisfying for me, but the bottom line is I think it’s brilliant.
I’m really fascinated by color scheming websites. My favorite is ColorSchemeDesigner.com, which lets me pick a color, adjust the lightness or darkness, and then pairs it with its mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic, or accented analogic counterparts to create perfect color combinations.
My favorite part is that the hex code is displayed when hovering over any color, so adding them to my style sheets is easy.