VirtualMV/Flash12 (CS6)/Design Examples/Content

Overview

: Design examples By the end of this page you will be able to: Discuss good and bad design for a selection of examples

Introduction

Design and aesthetics can be very personal. This page presents some examples (and links to examples) highlighting good and bad design

Internet sites

Cool

• Experience Beck Live Beck says “Hello Again” to David Bowie's 'Sound and Vision'. Your patience will be rewarded with a Flash masterpiece. Headphones recommended.
• Top 10 Best Flash Websites of 2010(ebizmba,2010).
• Turbochef Technologies (2007) Probably the fastest oven in the world and a very cool website. .
• Alex Frank (2005)[3] An imaginary research institute, analyzing peoples clicking behavior. Very interesting. .
• Test your Agile Mind(Deutsche Bank, n.d.)[4] Some games to test your mind (spatial, memory, construction, etc)
• 30 Fresh Examples of Single Page Websites(Muller, 2011)[5] (Actually a single page from the web sites)
• ecodazoo (McCann Erickson Japan, Inc, 2006)[6] A single page web site with a flash movie for 8 - 12 year olds - 3D storybook.

Case studies

• Tracta 2012 A Service Agency Uses flash to give a "frames" like structure
• Whittakers Chocolate(2010).
• AgencyNet(2010)

2010 Sample Web design http://www.agencynet.com/

• Comments

• mono marketing company

2010 Sample Web design http://mono-1.com/

• Comments: a Minneapolis-based company that believes in the power of simplicity.

Not cool

• http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com
• http://www.etsy.com/color.php
• http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/arts-entertainment/2010/07/50-face-numbingly-bad-websites.html - Photos examples of 50 badly designed web pages.

http://www.web_4_all.republika.pl is a good example of why animated GIF's should never be used as the background of a webpage.

• http://dokimos.org/ajff/ - An "interesting" design - lots of animation!!

• Source Security.com Lots of animated ads
• A Frames based site in 2013
  • http://www.fabricland.co.uk/