15Feb
This viral site for 2012 movie was released a couple of days ago, and I’ve been playing around at it today finding that its graphic design and usability are great. Now, most Flash sites rely on top notch fx, which are unappropriate for slow machines or small screen resolutions. This one has cool fx, but you get them if start to go deep into the content, it’s not on the home page slowing down everything (and worse, once you entered, those sites doesn’t have anything remarkable) and ruining the first impression. This site is featured like a site from a real scientific research facility, and you get to adjust simulations to predict natural disasters, see efforts worldwide to prevent apocalypsis, enter a lottery to win your survival and more. The design is superb, the content is well structured with the proper hierarchy, it has a breadcrumb bar, intuitive mini-applications and I really like the contact/lottery form design; it even has swf deep linking. Good design, good usability plus a tremendous fun to play with, make this site one awesome viral site.
On the opposite, check the viral for Skynet Research.
Tags: flash, usability, web application
2Feb
Gmail Labs launched a new feature to enable a Gmail offline mode. The idea behind this is that you store your mail on your local computer (make sure it’s yours!) so you can access it even when you don’t have a connection available. Another feature is that any mail that you write offline will be sent next you go online. Of course this is making extensive use of the cool Google Gears technoology that so many web applications already use, like the back-end of WordPress for example.
To enable Gmail offline just click the green flask beside your name and enable it on the panel. Now you will get a new ‘Offline’ link with a version number in red (0.1 as today). Click it and you will be prompted with a wizard that will ask you to enable Gears for Gmail.
Tags: google, web application
28Jan
Ever wanted to get some colors to match that brilliant green from your client’s logo? Picking up the right color is not an easy task. Thankfully, there are some online tools that can be helpful when looking for the right color. These 7 tools will help you to get the right color. Each of these tools was picked based on its usefulness, features and fast responsiveness to ensure a proper workflow. Read more
Tags: color, javascript, resources, tools, web application
