Nice interactive site by Bryan James showing skilful use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to animate 30 endangered animals.
Category: Multimedia development
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Hopscotch – coding on iPads for kids
Hopscotch is a pretty cool app for simplifying the coding process for kids – on iPads.
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BBC Your life on Earth interactive
Nice interactive piece made by IIB Studio (Information is Beautiful) for the BBC showing the impact of humanity on the Earth over our lifetimes, but personalised with our date of birth and height.
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Bezier game – interactive HTML
The kind of game and interaction that would have been made in Flash a few years ago, now all done in HTML, CSS and JS.
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Design is intent
John Moran’s view on the use of design in business.
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Programming sucks
Peter Welsh on why programming sucks, and how it’s amazing that anything computerised works.
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Shorthand – scrolly story site builder
Used by the ABC for the Packer’s Road story, and maybe the recent asylum seeker story. Good to investigate.
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ABC tries online “interactive” story
ABC has published a “snowfall” style interactive story on the Australian Government’s “Soverign Borders” operation. It appears to be a pretty basic development — it’s pretty hard to top some of the other examples that have been created recently. Does this form of presenting existing stories add much?
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Facebook’s interaction design aid – Origami
Facebook have released an internal interaction design aid called Origami which enhances Apple Quartz Composer to do useful interface prototyping, with an emphasis on animation.
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Earth wind map
Really nice liveish animation of wind strength patterns on the globe. This sort of stuff would have been made in Flash only a few years ago…