Designvelopment is a term I use to describe how I'm switching constantly between a sketchbook, code, and pixels, blurring the line between creative and logical thinking. This site is meant to be an outlet for my thoughts as an interactive designer and developer, as well as a resource for others in this field.
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Here is a phenomenal use of Flash video. Saab has created their Animal Vision minisite, where the visitor must find the elusive lynx, while viewing stunning video of the Saab 9-5 Sedan and SportCombi parked in the middle of a haunting forest. It took me a while to figure out how they pulled this one off.
Now here’s a great way to go about your holiday shopping. Try out Borders Gifts new Flash shopping guide. This is really well done, fun and simple to use, and is a great example of how Flash should be used online.
Beautiful, just beautiful. Why do these Swedish Flash sites look so damn cool? They seem to carry this fun, simple, elegant feeling. Maybe it’s all the fun little dots over their vowels. Get your mail order Toyota AYGO.
Browse through the relationships between different tags that people use in del.icio.us. The navigation is a simple and elegant Flash interface.
So often, Flash websites that feature a newly released movie; although beautiful, rich, and highly interactive; are confined to a small fixed area of the browser window. The website for Wolf Creek, however, takes over your entire screen with full-bleed Flash video. It’s nice to see someone successfully and creatively utilize an integrated liquid design in a movie website.
Build your own custom board with this Flash snowboard builder from Burton. Yes, I think it’s time to buy a new board for this season.
Wow! Bullet-time has come to Flash! Spin around to your heart’s content in this brilliant atmospheric interface by IKEA.
Go behind the scenes and see how the latest version of our favorite program was produced in The Making of Flash 8.
Is Microsoft Sparkle the next Flash killer? Who knows? Should Macromedia be paying attention? Absolutely. Read the point-counterpoint in this article from Publish.
yugop.com has some interesting Flash ActionScript experiments up – ranging from physics experiments like motion logic with rigid body dynamics to a typographic search application. For those of you who don’t remember, yugop.com was at the forefront of ActionScript experimentation back in the early days of Flash.
