Sunday, October 26, 2008

Picturing Texts on the Web

This site is a little different from what a person might expect to run into or a few reasons.

1. It doesn't try to sell you anything, at least not overtly.
2. It uses virtually no text, making it available to people regardless of their language or literacy.
3. The visitor has to be a little creative and curious in order to get to all the content, rather than having the content be as obvious as possible. For example, doing the same thing repeatedly often yields different result, in direct contrast to the popular mantra that repeating the same act but expecting different results is the definition of insanity.

Much like the road sign or airport security poster, this site utilizes (fairly) universal iconography to entertain and stimulate the viewer.

Can you get the Spaceship Tramway car to work? It can be done. And each step along the way is fun and surprising!

If you want to check out more of this stuff, here's the home page.

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