[Sigia-l] RE: Interesting Interface

[Reinoud Bosman]

There are multiple ways of delivering your message and if you want your
brand remembered in a very short-attention-span environment I think these
are prime examples. The interface plays a double role. The unusual format
raises interest and entices the user to stay put and explore further. In
some cases further than you would have without.

another one:
www.bobschneidermusic.com

r.



On 5/16/05 4:30 PM, "Amy Silvers" <asilvers at vml.com> wrote:

>  
> Seth Earley wrote:
> 
> 
>> Criticism and cynicism aside, these are very creative and at
>> first glance
>> interesting.  Agency.net has actual content management
>> applications behind
>> the scenes driving what they are doing.  Clearly these bring
>> a new level of
>> artistry to UI design, but is there more than initial
>> entertainment value?
>> Not sure.
>> 
> I have to agree here. Visually, these are enticing sites, but I kept
> feeling like I wasn't hitting all of the right rooms or buttons or
> whatever widgets to get a complete picture. At Agency.net (which I
> thought was the best of the four, though the room metaphor seems a
> little bit tired to me), it took me a while to figure out what was
> where, and I got two different screens each of the times I clicked on
> the Contact link. The gas station metaphor at Pixel Gasoline is very
> appealing and clever visually, but I got very little sense of the
> company's capabilities (on either the French or the English site), and
> the "samples" (which I expected to be actual samples of work) were more
> baffling than explanatory. Matthew Mahon's site had the least intuitive
> navigation of all, but it was great fun to explore; since he's a
> photographer and not selling marketing or agency-type services, the site
> model seemed more appropriate for his work than for a corporate site.
> All in all, though, I'm not sure any of these interfaces would make me
> more inclined to hire one of these organizations than a more
> straightforward interface would.
> 
> The Tracy Locke site is a little less bells-and-whistles-y, but I
> thought it struck a better balance between textual information and
> visual dazzle than any of the more "innovative" sites. (I couldn't get
> to the intriguingly named dontclick site, which is apparently overrun by
> traffic.)
> 
> Amy Silvers
> Experience Architect
> VML
> 
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