Now this is cool. Thanks to a major architectural intervention and funding from Adobe - A decrepit factory is now a high-tech public design school.
Once so decrepit that the show The Wire used it as a set to symbolize the post-industrial urban decay. I just love it and would kill to have daily access to those windows.
Months and months in the making and I finally had enough. It might not be done yet, but say hello to my new portfolio site and accompanying blog/notes-section.
Since it is my very own site I have the luxury to decide to ignore images sizes (there are a lot of images and they are HUGE) and which devices to support e t c. In this case taken the short route and choosen to test it only on a Mac with a modern browser, on my iPhone and my iPad. It should work, but maybe with a few glitches, on older browsers and devices.
It is my first time developing a site powered by Jekyll and I must say that the experience is really nice. With Jekyll and SASS I can finally custom design individual pages/posts with eaze instead of using WordPress, plugins and crap. My favorite page at the moment is the Zissou-section.
Typekit delivers the typefaces used. Among the typefaces I use you can find FF Enzo, Freight Text Pro and Futura PT.
Symbolset provides the social media icons and you can also find Font-Awesome here and there.
If you find anything strange on the site, don't hesitate to shoot me an email: daniel@feldt.nu
National Geographic Channel recently launched their mini-site for their movie Killing Kennedy and it looks quite stunning. If only they weren't killing your basic input device at the same time.
You see, they hi-jack your scroll - which is a trend at the moment. Mainly on marketing- and campaign-sites like the one for iPhone5C and their other recently launched products.
Hi-jacking the scroll will always irritate the user and especially if there is video and sound connected to the scroll. I can't be the only one who scrolled down to far because of the delay in the scroll hi-jacking? I went back - it started over again and all in all it interrupted the intended UX.
There comes a time in every URL’s life where it needs to decide whether it wants to be a powerpoint, a movie, or an actual website. I think a video player or slide switcher that operates independent from scroll seems like a more web-friendly approach.
Pretty. Very pretty. But it could have been so much better with conventional scrolling.
I just posted a dribbble-shot of the first iteration when it comes to refreshing the icons we use for symbolizing the different types of houses and properties on Hemnet.se.
Check it out on Dribbble and let me know what you think. There are 6-7 different types and these types can have several of different states - i.e. for sale, sold e t c.