Note from the author: apologies if this post sounds like a Microsoft marketing campaign, but I am really excited about this technology!
Let’s say you have a website and you want to give your visitors the experience edge.
The media experience can be improved by using Microsoft Silverlight on your website. Some of the features include:
- Vector graphics with light, degrade and other effects
- Overlaying your HTML with Silverlight content
- React to keyboard input
- Video overlay
- Real-time data
- AJAX
Some impressive examples can be found on the Silverlight website. Here’s a few from the top of my head:
- Single coloured backgrounds? Forget about them! Create amazing forms, patterns, shades and colour rich backgrounds
- Animation effects, including menu transition, drag and drop, zoom, pop-ups, animated drop down, 3D wheel and “page turning”
- Better user experience patterns
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Telmo wrote this on 18.03.08 – 33 comments
It's filed in the Design, Development, Marketing, User experience box
I’ve recently traded in the job title ‘Producer’ for a shiny new model - ‘Experience Designer’. I’m still not entirely comfortable with it and have found myself mumbling and stumbling over it when I introduce myself. I don’t think ‘Producer’ was all that explanatory but at least it didn’t sound wanky.
I think part of the problem is that experience design isn’t a phrase in common usage as yet, so it’s something that has to be explained and expanded on.
My favourite way of explaining anything is to think of an example - so what’s the best example of the process and output of experience design?
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Jenni wrote this on 20.11.07 – 8 comments
It's filed in the Design, User experience box
Josh says ‘it’s done’.
Bollocks more like.
Since when was a website ever done? This website, blog, wiki or whatever it is now or turns into WILL NEVER BE DONE :)
Done means finished, completed, never to be touched again. The web isn’t like that.
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Will McInnes wrote this on 17.11.07 – 11 comments
It's filed in the Development, Marketing, NixonMcInnes, Our sites box
What an intense labour of love it’s been rolling out the Nixon McInnes brand. My baby is born. For me, it was essential for this design to go live ASAP. The personality of NM was there from the offset but it was not being communicated in our marketing materials.
The success of this project lies in the research phase - so often this is skipped, but with this project there was a chance to embed this important phase of work. And to be honest this is the real success of the project - once the personality was defined, the rest just flowed. Read more…
Joshua wrote this on 14.11.07 – 4 comments
It's filed in the Design box
Pitching.
I love it. It’s a real buzz - get’s the adrenaline flowing.
But it’s tough, even though I love it.
We’ve been pitching like mad recently, which is a healthy sign, because to pitch a prospective client has to ask you to do so. You’ve gotta be in the running first, innit.
And we have been, so that’s good :-)
My current pitches are:
- a very very well known brand in the elderly market, website design and build
- a University looking for a digital marketing partner to provide consultancy
- an International wine company to create a sophisticated ecommerce website
- an International charity for a very funky social media website design and build
Will McInnes wrote this on 25.04.07 – what do you think?
It's filed in the NixonMcInnes box
An interactive and design led website for parents and children to use together for learning and play
The Nixon McInnes team are incredibly excited to launch today an impressive addition to our website portfolio in the children’s TV channel site Jim Jam.
Jim Jam is a cable TV channel which has launched in its first territory, Italy, with plans to roll-out across Europe. Hence why the site is in Italian!
The team has designed and built two sites for Jim Jam. The first site was a password protected press site made live in advance of the main channel and site launch to promote and manage media contact. This static HTML microsite was developed to tight deadlines to allow press release and media pack downloads.
The second and main site option is a bespoke design led site with interactive games created using Flash animation. The activities, colour and general vibrancy of the site makes it a welcome opportunity to demonstrate the creative design strength at Nixon McInnes.
The main site details the TV channel schedule which the client is able to populate using an EPG (Electronic Programme Guide) plug-in. The home page can also be updated to highlight changing channel promotions or seasonal themes.
View the Jim Jam site here.
Why not try your hand at the games – more fun than that report you should be writing!
Jo wrote this on 07.12.06 – what do you think?
It's filed in the Internet, NixonMcInnes, Our sites box
Nixon McInnes warned their customers and business partners today of the possible implications of the launch of Internet Explorer 7 by Microsoft. Internet Explorer is the major global web browser accounting for approximately 70% of website traffic. The launch of Internet Explorer 7 by Microsoft may cause fundamental access and functionality issues for existing websites. The new version of the browser due to be launched in late October may cause the website visual layout, online forms, applications using secure connections and complex Javascript to break or not function as expected.
We recommend that site owners act before the proposed launch to work with either their in-house web team or with their web design agency to take steps to ensure their site is audited and made compatible with the new version of this most popular browser.
With over 70% of target audiences using Internet Explorer to view a website it is clearly not worth taking the chance of them not being able to view or use the site correctly with the resulting negative impact that could have on business.
Find out more information from Microsoft about the launch of IE7
Jo wrote this on 18.10.06 – 1 comment
It's filed in the Interesting, Internet box
Today the new website that our strategic partner 48 Fitzroy (who are also based in Sussex) commissioned us to design went live:
http://www.48fitzroy.co.uk/
The website is very different from many in our portfolio, being the first that we have ever produced solely in Macromedia Flash, the well-known ‘animation’ software package. As a technology-neutral web agency, that’s a really important and positive step for us.
Using Flash as a technology for website design has some real strengths.
Our colleagues at 48 Fitzroy - being superb designers - like the very specific controls that Flash gives them over the look of the website that appears on the user’s screen.
The guys at 48 Fitzroy also had a clear vision for the animated ‘transition’ between screens: you can see that the website picks out key words from client testimonials as you navigate around the website.
As with all technologies Flash does have some fairly major weaknesses too. But we won’t take the sheen off today’s good news by dwelling on those just now!
So check out 48 Fitzroy - they do some great design and branding work.
Will McInnes wrote this on 24.01.06 – 2 comments
It's filed in the Design, NixonMcInnes, Our sites box
