The new look BBC website homepage has it’s links as just gray text. Not blue, not underlined and with only the faintest of hover effects. As a result, tired and at the end of the day, I found myself reading the headlines as absurdist poetry:
Sarkozy warns of disintegration,
Inquiry into unfair exam advice,
Child killer Black gets 25 years,
Lodger quizzed on double killing,
Dying woman calls for law change,
Double decker destroyed by fire,
Twitter did not incite rioting.
I looked for it but couldn’t find it so I made it. Here’s an Axure library of callout widgets:
It’s not exactly rocket science but hopefully someone might find it useful. Callouts are probably an oddity in the Axure world, as Axure is more based on prototypes rather than wireframes. But at work we use Axure more for traditional wireframes than prototypes so need callouts for on-page documentation. In this environment Axure’s killer feature is it’s SVN based system for collaborating on a shared file. (Try getting three people to successfully update a 100+ page Visio document at the same time without errors…)
It’s time for another Interface of the Week (actually it’s well overdue). This is a simple one, but it’s a solution that I think creates ate a nice user experience.
Thisismykea.com is a nice website that sells designs on sticky-back plastic that you can add to your plain Ikea furniture. It’s a good idea, and the website is well designed but this article is not really interested in most of it.
The part that has the earned the accolade of IotW is the product listing images that, when moused over, changes to show the design on different Ikea products. Moving the mouse from left to right scans through the images, here’s a quick video to illustrate:
In a vain attempt to try to get myself writing on this blog more regularly, I’m going to start a weekly series about interfaces that have caught my eye. It’ll be originally titled ‘Interface of the week’. I’m not going to look at things too deeply, but rather just point out the interesting, inspiring, or possibly, interestingly improvable bits.
This week’s interface of the week is the interface of a new mobile phone : First Else. (No, I’d not heard of it either—and don’t visit that link—they have a hugely long and dull Flash intro that proclaims, apparently without irony, “Technology was supposed to make our lives easier”, ho hum…) Do look here, on Behance.