Against the flow; Horizontally scrolling sites

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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.
Horizontal websites scroll-bars

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.
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Computers are like a bicycle for our minds

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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.
 

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Television; an industry in transition

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The movie and TV broadcast industries are on the brink of chaos. Media ownership and live broadcast models are slowly disappearing.

VHS tape - times are changing

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.
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Our one-page portfolio

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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.

Every Interaction Portfolio one-page website
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Sparrow mail app review for iPhone

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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.

Sparrow iPhone and Desktop app

Sparrow initially produced a desktop email client that closely resembled the mac twitter desktop app in appearance and stripped-back simplicity. We probably do 80% of our emailing through desktop clients during office hours and so found the Sparrow desktop app to be too simple for our needs. The demand to manage many projects and organize mails quickly (dragging conversations directly to a folder) requires a more complex UI provided by such staples as Apple Mail or Outlook. There is obviously a large market for the Sparrow desktop app but it was not we. Then along came the Sparrow iPhone app…
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Can you really say you ever created anything truly original?

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A fantastic recent video project by Kirby Ferguson called Everything is a remix, the main theme of which is ‘Copy | Transform | Combine’; of 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.

Everything is a remix. Evolution; copy - transform - combine
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Tweetbot iOS app review

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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.

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.

Tweetbot tweet stream interface
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Designers as startup founders

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There has been some chatter in recent days amongst the design and startup communities on the topic of designers as founders. Fuelled partly by Enrique Allen’s recent article.

Startup founder (designer) t-shirt

Here at Every Interaction we are startup focussed, having helped many transition from infancy through to maturity and profitability, becoming shareholders on select projects and also started our own projects/IP becoming entrepreneurs and founders ourselves. We think this unique combination of perspectives puts us in a good place to contribute our two pence.
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Every Interaction branding collateral

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Here at Every Interaction we’re very pleased with our new brand which was developed in collaboration with the wonderful Yarra Jones. We’ve now started applying this across various media, including the usual required media and some extras. Recently sent out a snail-mail pack to our clients updating them on our change of the new agency’s identity, bundling in a branded notepad and postcard explaining the shift. Our final identity:

Every Interaction logo

Couple of pictures of how we’ve applied the brand and what we sent out below.

Now we’ve got the brand out there we’re concentrating on the rest of the website, and hope to continue to post interesting things here so stayed tuned by RSS or follow us on twitter.

Every Interaction client mail pack
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New Twitter redesign

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Following the recent Twitter UI redesign across all its platforms (new twitter GUI PSD resource we created available to download for free) I thought it a good time to look back and reflect on the still annoying interface niggles & inconsistencies that inhibit an ideal user experience across the board. As brilliant as twitter is, I hope to highlight how it could be made better and would hope to see some of these features being released over the course of the next few years. Read post

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