Wonderwall :: Website :: Review

http://wonder-wall.com/#project/en

Wonderwall


Wonderwall is a website set up to display the interior design studio run by Masamichi Katayama. The website is different to how it displays work having a big grid structure stretching the length of the page, and when the mouse hovers over a any image changing its form and playing a water drop sound which gets a bit repative. The structure also remembers the users click history and changes the form, it kind of tilts the grid to an angle its a nice feature but it also messes up the text at the bottom which is abit annoying if you wished to read it, you would have to tilt your head if you really wanted to read it. When a image is clicked on it loads another page giving a description and a link to further information.

I really like the way this website displays the work and like how the formal grid structure changes into a more fluid object when the mouse is present. Very innovative design and keeps the user at the website even if their not reading the content .

lbiatlanta :: Review

http://lbiatlanta.com/

3d interdimensional rotating rings.

I like this website layout and intresting navigation rather than using the mouse like everyother website, the Ibiatlanta has a nice 3d interface navigated by using the arrow keys and the space bar, alot like the controls of some old computer games.

To select a panel by pressing space, then the website loads the panel effectively zooming in on the tower. The website is very easy to navigate and set out very well and quite simple. I like this website because of the 3d aspect and i see more websites like this as the websites evolve and improve and computers get better and have enough memory and fast internet connections to run these websites.

Website Review :: bandit3

http://www.bandit3.com

From the the fwa website i found a pretty awesome website http://www.bandit3.com/. The website is fully 3d, allowing the user to have a freelook around a 3d environment of a inner city area. The website is set up for promoting bandit3 a kite boarding company, however to someone who has no knowledge of kite boarding could maybe make a vague reference to it but thats about it, first it was not clear what the website was about. Through exploreing & later reading the fwa's description of the website it became more clear.

As i explored the 3d inner city space from a street view it took me to videos of more about the company and other information, there are scenes where the user can look freely around the environment and to go to other sections there is a cut scene which automatically takes you there, this is good not to lose the user in the website but bad because it takes away an element of free looking around and exploring the website.

I really liked this website not for the content but for the environment and thinking about it, it probably wouldn't be too hard to use it in other things, like a tourism webste or in a 3d based game. The models seem simple with pasted texture what looked like photos put on to them so i think the concept is quite easy, overall i liked the website.