04 October, 2007

Research

I found this site from netdiver.net where is the one of the famous design site. I concentrated on flashware categories and I could see so many interesting and amazing works in there. But I was especially interested on this web site. (http://www.philbrown.bc.ca/). This full flash homepage was nominated on the site of 2002.

As this site is made of full flash, everything works really dynamically and keep doing something. Major theme is an airport and a 'person' moves into different area of airport. There are only really simple animations there. black symbol of people just moves from one point to another point. people itself doesn't have any small reactions except small orange 'speak box'. Sound of some part of japanese instruction of airport gives you stronger feeling of atmosphere than just some airport symbols such as airplane, seatbelts and big travel bag.

One of the major reason that I was interested in this site was simple user interactive flow system. Everything work in same time and user feels that they are watching an full animation movie. But it needs to be clicked by user at important part to keep going on. No need to think much, but it just attract people effectively to follow and concentrate on the animation. Instead of just showing what they want to show, it ask user to participate in it.
After I've seen this site, I realised that I was too much stuck on my preliminary concept. I wanted to use black people symbol to make a space of my mind somehow to show different aspect of my mind. I was keep thought that I'm gonna use only black and white to make it simple and clear to emphasis 2D space. However, I changed my mind. This site also used many simple black symbols in it and also used realistic photos and sounds which help this site make more realistic atmosphere. I think it makes a real 'space'.

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