Simian Design

March 8, 2005

Scroll Wheel Required

The NID Gallery is an interesting site. A very different interface idiom.

You see, the mouse wheel seems to be required. That’s how you rotate their big wheels of work. The experience is just fun. I love spinning the wheel, seeing the piece of work I end up with. That’s cool. Seeing the other wheel rotate to show the artist, that’s cool. The viewing of the work, where both artist and piece expand the same…it’s nice. The artist has the same amount of weight that the piece of art does.

But there is something here that’s bugging me, and I’m not sure what it is. There seems to be a lot of flashing and throbbing. Maybe that’s all there is.

The site is defintely fun though. Neat interface idea. I wonder what it would be like on an Apple one-button mouse?

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Posted at 07:08 AM

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Eliot

So much fun! The site behaves exactly how I would expect it to. I move to the left, the artist gets larger. I move to the right, the art gets enlarged. I click, it shows more details. I click again and it goes back. The spinning is lots of fun!

Posted by: Eliot | March 8, 2005 09:46 AM

sandman

It's a new interface to a new type of navigation very much cool!

Posted by: sandman | March 8, 2005 10:39 PM

Sandman

I have grabbed this site in flash, and study the mechanism..

They use xml, and yes they using a lot of flashing effect

It is sure a new way to do navigation, it's really interesting...

now i must find too how they can interact with wheel button in actionscript...

Posted by: Sandman | March 9, 2005 12:32 AM