This website demonstrates what an interface that does not require mouse clicking could look like. I wouldn’t call this a research experiment exactly, but the developers do collect usage data and apparently they record the mouse movements for all users who visit the site. I think this is an important topic to explore, especially with [...]

I was playing around with designing some sort of symbol to represent the field of Human Factors and came up with the crest above. I quite like it, but I know it needs some work. We’ll call this version 0.0.1. There was a method to my madness during the design stages and you can read [...]

Fuzzy Ink. The home of all things mustache. So why am I posting it on playgraph? Well, a couple reasons. Mustache’s are awesome. Just not on me. I worked with Stimmel at Cisco, one of the creatives behind the mustache. The site and apparel are really well designed and they make me smile.

BooneOakley’s actual website is a youtube video. It’s quite a clever use of youtube if you think about it – very little in-house server load (domain name simply forwards to the youtube vide), and huge opportunities for exposure. The site has already been viewed almost 500,000 times and it’s got a five star rating from [...]

Labuat is a Spanish music band and they have one of the most beautiful Flash music visualizations I have seen in a while. It’s all based on a mouse trailer that is manipulated by the song and controlled by your mouse. The way that everything syncs so smoothly and seamlessly is really impressive. I like [...]

Developed at Stanford, Protovis is an SVG-powered data visualization toolkit for web browsers. Their example page shows you some of the visualizations that Protovis can manage. I especially appreciate the inclusion of Tufte’s sparklines. Even though it’s in the early stages of development, with support for only Firefox 3, Chrome and Safari 4, it’s still [...]

Grant Skinner is one of the top Flash developers out there and pretty much anything he spends time on is worth having a good look at. Normally, when I see a bouncing ball Flash animation I roll my eyes, but of course, I knew this would be different, and I was right. Keep in mind [...]

I recently watched a TED talk by Golan Levin on how he combines engineering and art to create really innovative interactive experiences. One example of his work take’s a brilliant recital of Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate by Jaap Blonk and translates the words into on-screen text in real time. It’s immensely fun to watch a grown [...]

I remember when tokidoki was just a personal flash site. It was one of those sites that made me wish I had thought of that unique and fun graphic style. It just made sense to me I guess.  Anyway, I returned recently to the site to see if there was anything new and low and [...]

I’ve been following a lot of Joshua Davis’s multimedia design projects ever since I got into Flash design back in 1998. His praystation series and once-upon-a-forest site were very influential as I began to develop my own sense of design. He also contributed to a very influential (for me) Flash book called New Masters of [...]