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830 Sign, under contruction page

higui — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:37:55 +0000

830 Sign is an italian fashion company based in Verona. It made its international debut with a collection of men’s and women’s Italian cashmere and denim.
After a work of definition and refinement of the brand visual identity, we developed a first “under construction” page in order to show the very first cashmere and denim collection. Logically, this website has to grow.

View website: ~~www.830sign.com~~, Local copy

Home view

Zoomed in view

Total Tool

higui — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:39:06 +0000

Total Tool is a consultancy and planning firm that works in the design, communication and architecture sector, based in Milan.

The website is basically a map in witch you can navigate trough. While waiting all the slides to be loaded, a quick tutorial introduce the user to the different navigation modalities.

The website can be navigated trough many different modalities:

point and click to choose a single slide
drop down menus pointing to each single slide
arrows on the screen’s border to navigate the map
keyboard’s arrows to move and space bar to zoom
activating a navigator trough the ctrl/command key

Two different zoom levels are present: the shallow one, witch permits the user to browse the map, and the deep one, that permits content exploration and understanding.

View website: www.totaltool.it

Navigation tutorial

Zoom out view

Nevigation modalities

Half zoom view

Zoom in view

Presentation template

higui — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:55:20 +0000

I created this presentation template as support for my friend Domenico degree dissertation. After that, thanks to its simplicity in managing and updating, i used it in several different occasion.

The template allows us to place different slide on a surface, arranging them as part of a matrix. The user can navigate the presentation through three zoom levels, each one corresponding to a different interaction modality and a different quality of content:

Zoom out view: pick and choose | table of content
Half zoom view: explore | slide titles
Zoom in view: browse | slide content

The system recognize titles as different objects form slides, in other words they are present and visible but not part of the navigation. This allows us to subdivide slides in groups, but to have fluent flow while browsing. The slide sequence recognized by the system is obviously left to right and top to bottom.

Zoom out view

Half zoom view

Zoom in view

Demonstration video

The video below is a demonstration of the presentation template in action. While in the “zoom out view” you can see the mouse pointer selecting the slides, in the other view the input are coming from arrows key for moving and from the space bar for zooming

Demonstration video