Thursday, October 18, 2012

GE Website - Toni Wiltsey

http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/landing_page















In my exploration of flash websites i can across this one and was extremely impressed. The creators really enhanced some basic design elements to affectively interact with the visitor. On the home page it is basically a simple pie cart turned 3-demenssionl and by having the area you are rolling over start animating the viewer can't help from exploring more pages. Another element I was impressed by was once you clicked on a piece of the pie cart the information that is presented is a VERY VERY simple graph and by angling it, adding shadows and showing it grow it becomes intriguing rather than a boring graph. Then there is the menu, by having it on the bottom and kind of hidden forced you to interact with the page and while moving around you notice the other elements. The alternate energy page is one of my favorite pages, like the others it is an animated graph, but this graph the visitor controls the information by plugging in more or less turbines. But, the augmented reality page is awesome! On this page you can print out a piece of paper and control the animation through your computers video cam, what a totally cool feature. I thoroughly enjoyed visiting this site and hope you do too.

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