[Sigia-l] Universcale

[Lee Hsieh]

Pretty neat idea though the execution could be improved.  Aside from 
some design 101 issues(eg, centered text in small font), i find the use 
of Flash to be somewhat gratuitous and disorienting.

There are sites using Flash well to enhance usability and the overall 
user experence (eg, iscrybe), but in this case, it's not adding a whole 
lot other than giving users motion sickness ;-)

..otherwis, the site serves as another reminder of how miniscule our 
existence is in the grand scheme of things..

Lee


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> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:49:47 -0400
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> While designing a predictive analysis system presented through a fun-to-use
> timeline UI, I've been looking lately at a lot of these scale-based
> paradigms:
> 
> <http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale>
> 
> (To those who frequent places like the Hayden Planetarium in NYC or who
> still remember the great "Powers of Ten" Eases classic this should be
> familiar. But it still is a great, fundamental exercise to think about the
> notion of relative scale and orientation.)
> 
> ----
> Ziya
> 
> Usability >  Simplify the Solution
> Design >  Simplify the Problem
> 
>