Real tales of San Francisco
Real tales of San Francisco
I’ve spent some time lately thinking about websites that make heavy use of hover states, the sorts of sites where whole swaths of information and functionality are hidden from the user until she happens to discover them by hovering her mouse on various elements on the page. What if our real life interactions with other people were like our online interactions with web elements? What if we always had to creepily hover right next to people just to get a sense of who they are and how we can interact with them? That would be uncomfortable.
Eager to escape the tech bubble for a weekend, Designer Dude and his circle of start-up friends went to Yosemite, where he spent most of his time dribbbling on a slack-line near their basecamp.
(Fun Fact: Designer Dude, still going through his icon phase, trimmed his beard solely so that his bow tie would be visible.)
This one goes out to all my designer friends who like to replace straightforward text with potentially ambiguous icons.
This is a weird one, but I couldn’t stop thinking about this idea on my walk home.
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