Hot time. Summer in the city…
What a neat way to cool off. More over what a cool piece of art. Art for art sake I can appreciate, but art driven by function is something truly special.
Millenium Park, Chicago.
The installation/fountain alternates between multicutural video images of faces and a lightshow waterfall.
If you want to kill your website or blog, try using wildly animated cursors. On Yahoo Answers, some one asked how to increase traffic to their website. Out of sheer curiosity, I took a peak at the site mentioned. HOLY $#!% – There are trailing fireballs for a cursor!!!! Want to know why no one is visiting your site??? Extinguish the fire cursor!!! Cluttering your blog or website with extra, meaningless, annoying crap like animated cursors is actually turning people away from your site!!!
A forum post at Blogger sums it up perfectly:
remember: nobody cares which N*Sync member you are, what State you are, which Party of Five kid you are, or which Weezer song you are. the second you put one of those things on your blog you need to delete your blog and try out for the marching band. similarilly, nobody gives a **** what the weather is like in your town, nobody wants you to change their cursor into a butterfly, nobody wants to vote on whether your blog is hot or not, and nobody gives a rat ass what song youre listening to.
So, what’s one of the easiest ways to increase traffic? Use keywords to optimize your site for search engines.
So, if functionality is first, and relevancy is second, Where the hell does creativity fit in?
Simply. It doesn’t.
At least not in this chain. Creativity is the over-arching principle that guides.
It is creativity that guides our elegant, functional designs.
It is creativity that allows relevance to resonate.
Without creativity function would only be an idea, relevance only an abstract. It’s creativity that gives life.
You’ve got your website dialed in. Visitor’s can fly from page to page. Navigation is intuitive and the pages are served up instantly.
OK.
So your site now does what its supposed to do. What’s next? While a clumsy website will kill your web prescence and hinder your business, a dialed one does not guarantee success. It is only your ticket to the game.
The next step is to make it relevant. Relevancy is the key to everything in business. In order for someone to interact and eventually give you money, they have to feel that your site, services, or products are relevant.
Functionality might come first at Nimbletoad, but relevancy is a close second.
