Getting to grips with our new client; Castle Climbing Centre
We are delighted to announce we have been appointed to work with The Castle Climbing centre in London. Following the successful redesign & launch of the Moon Climbing website earlier in the year we were approached by a mutual friend to help the popular North London climbing centre move their web presence forwards with an up to date and responsive website.
Against the flow; Horizontally scrolling sites
We’ve come a long way since the early days of the web in terms of being able to navigate around a site easily. We’ve moved from keyboards to button-only mice, from scroll-wheels to mighty and magic mice and mutli-touch trackpads. Getting around a webpage is easier than ever.
Horizontally scrolling sites have always been in a minority but seem to have increased in popularity in recent years. We’ve never made one ourselves, partly as it’s only a choice suitable for a certain projects (nearly exclusively portfolio sites) but also the combination of hardware limitations, finger dexterity and need to include additional UI instructions make it a difficult decision to justify. The experience of navigating a horizontally scrolling site with a mouse is simply too much of a usability obstacle.
(more…)Television; an industry in transition
The movie and TV broadcast industries are on the brink of chaos. Media ownership and live broadcast models are slowly disappearing.
Streaming/renting content is becoming a more convenient model for users who now have sufficient internet speeds, disposable income and no longer want shelves full of physical media, or have the time to wait around for the program they want to be aired. The internet has broken down all communication & delivery barriers making everything instant, and this is what we now expect of our televisual content. There’s a lot to say on the subject and more authoritative people have said most of it already, so we’re using this post to aggregate a few recent and relevant opinions that we’d like to share. (more…)
Sparrow mail app review for iPhone
Email is inherently personal and the way people manage it is personal too. Some are super-organisers; filing everything away into relevant folders (or tags), keeping a near-empty inbox with a zero-unread count. Others let their inbox fill up with little structure, clocking up thousands or tens of thousands of mails in one stream, many left unread. Individuals fall into a position somewhere on a line between these two extremes, and admittedly we lean more towards the organised end of the spectrum and so our opinion of the Sparrow iPhone app will be weighted to this use-case.
Tweetbot iOS app review
Update – this is a review for tweetbot 2.0 released in Feb 2012, not the new iOS7 3.0. If thats what you’re after here is a perfectly good review. Our thoughts are that the new tweetbot is awesome and you should all download it now.
The new tweetbot iOS app was released the other day to much fanfare. Seeing as we recently reviewed the usability and features of the official twitter app we thought is prudent to run over what appears to be at a glance real contender to replace twitters own app as an everyday alternative. So follows our Tweetbot iOS app review.
Upon installing the app, assuming you already have twitter accounts connected to your device OS, you are presented the option of adding them automatically, saving time on the usual login authentication method.
Twitter background image
We all love twitter. As self-confessed twitter-addicts we seem to be spending more and more time with twitter every day. We’ve always been fans of apps to view and post to twitter,but since the brilliant redesign we have found ourselves predominantly using the web interface for desktop interaction.
Tweetbot is still our preferred mobile client. There are however some hangovers from the previous design that with very little effort could improve the experience for all.
(more…)Computers are like a bicycle for our minds
One of the most inspiring talks we have ever seen. Wilson Miner, now the product designer at Rdio, previously interactive designer at Apple where he lead the team who delivered the refreshed Apple.com web presence in 2006, delivers an amazing speech at Build Conference.
Anyone working in screen based design (or any design related discipline) you should watch this talk and it will inspire you. Guaranteed.
(more…)Our one-page portfolio
Update
As the 1-page site was only ever meant to be a temporary solution (even though it lasted us nearly 2 years) we have since replaced it with our new, more fully featured adn awesoemly responsive site. Have a look around.
Since we launched the new brand for Every Interaction in the New Year, we’ve been trying to find to time to get a portfolio site live. As is always the case, the ‘Shoe makers shoes’ are the last thing to get any attention. Knowing we don’t have time to design and develop a larger site at present, we took inspiration from some of our client work and decided to take an (slightly lapse) agile approach. The simplest we could make the site was one-page, and so we started concentrating on a concept that both communicated what we do and showed a few projects simply.
Can you really say you ever created anything truly original?
A fantastic recent video project by Kriby Ferguson called Everything is a remix, the main theme of which is ‘Copy | Transform | Combine’ – ideas and creativity. Beautifully produced with a very important message. It represents an important perspective of ownership of creative material and how our market economy drives us to think that our ideas are property that can be legally protected. Without copying and remixing, without a certain degree of what can be described as plagiarism new ideas cannot evolve from old ones. Creation requires influence and everything we create is a direct result of all influences we’ve absorbed.
(more…)Designers as startup founders
There has been some chatter in recent days amongst the design and startup communities on the topic of designers as startup founders. Fuelled partly by Enrique Allen’s recent article.
