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My responsibilities were logo creation, product design, photography, website design, interaction, and managing the shopping cart coding and some training.

I particularly enjoy the colors and texture of lichen on rocks. The combinations of the sage greens, with oxide, desaturated purples and the subtle differences of grey spellbind my mind. Makes me thrilled to utilize my rods and cones. It’s like a favorite meal that never gets old.

Fonts have texture and color that are completely independent of [color] cones. The texture and color I’m referring to deals strictly with the rods—the luminance detecting part of the eye. A well designed magazine and site make tasteful use of multiple textures and colors. I’ve noticed that great site make use of several textures beyond what is commonly specified in CSS and frequently required custom lables in div tags. Here’s a list.

Dominant
Logo
Main Benefit
Main Navigation

Info
Table
Chart
Flash Animation
News Feeds
Search

Download
PDF/Whitepapers
Movie
Presentations
10 tips

End Goal
Product photography
Price
Buttons
Newsletter
RSS
Share with a friend
Post you own
Bookmark it

Text Formatting
Heading 1
Heading 2
Link formatting
Italics
Bold
Body Paragraph
List numbered/unordered
Quotes
Block indent

Elements
Header
Content Background
Full Background
Motifs
Contact Form
Comments
Avatars

Minutiae
Login/Logout
Certifications/Endorsements
Picture Captions
Tiny icons
Page number
Copyright

The handling of the minutiae has a surprising significance.

Novelty gift lotion items. Concept of lotion from the creative mind of William Bunn. Design concept, art direction and logo design by Seth Taylor

Repression: long descending cloud represents repressing feeling way down deep
Denial: white cloud dissipating any belief
Anger: churning engulfing grasping cloud

When we take the time to figure out what we assume, it can unveil opportunities for innovation.

The purpose of the following list is not to say that these changes will make for a better internet experience, or that there aren’t exceptions to these assumptions, but merely to discover what we assume about the dub dub dub.

It is assumed that:

• sites are navigated by clicking on links. What if there were other behaviors to control your user experience
• files from the server is what will load on screen. What if images like “mom.jpg” were accessed from your hard drive and displayed on a web page? What if these images endorsed products?
• pages are navigated with visual feedback. What if items were read or found by aural feedback, or tactile experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

The link below contains the source code for creating your own custom right click menu in Flash.

custom right click menu in Flash zip download

See it in action here