Here are two influenza awareness stickers sighted at the SFU and UBC campus respectively. The most important message is “cough or sneeze into your sleeve“. Let see how they communicate the message: Sighted at SFU men’s washroom. Simple and nicely executed. Why it is usable: Minimal text – passes the “no one reads instruction” test Simple English – people scan, not read. And just please don’t assume that anybody would be interested enough to stand reading your long paragraph. Simple and huge graphic – easy to understand High colour contrast – easy to see from far, in low light situation; [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Cough Notice
Here are two influenza awareness stickers sighted at the SFU and UBC campus respectively. The most important message is “cough or sneeze into your sleeve“. Let see how they communicate the message: Sighted at SFU men’s washroom. Simple and nicely executed. Why it is usable: Minimal text – passes the “no one reads instruction” test Simple English – people scan, not read. And just please don’t assume that anybody would be interested enough to stand reading your long paragraph. Simple and huge graphic – easy to understand High colour contrast – easy to see from far, in low light situation; [...]
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Designing Obama
Designing Obama is a documentary book about the art and design created for this historical presidential campaign of USA. The author, Scott Thomas, has created a fund-raising project at http://www.kickstarter.com to draw attention and support. I think this is a fun and inspiring project from both artistic and public-participation perspectives. During the campaign period, a tremendous number of artists and designers has invested their talent and passion into their works to support Obama. This book can be a good design reference for me. Secondly, it is interesting to see how the general public/net-citizens discover and participate in such online creative [...]
Scrolling Behaviour in iTunes Store
I have an interesting observation in scrolling behaviour on iTunes Store. The common practice of a scrolling interface is that, when a user click on the “down” button of a vertical scrollable container, the content within the container will shift up, revealing more content below the current visible area. This behaviour has been commonly understood and widely implemented in most platforms and products. However the iTunes Store behaves differently. As you can see from the screen capture below, when clicking the “down” button on the scrollable area of the Featured Product box, the content would shift down instead of up. [...]
Safeway Donation Campaign for Local Breast Cancer Research
Donating a few cents while grocery shopping has never been easier. The other day I went to a Safeway for some grocery shopping, and when I was checking out the cashier asked, “would you like to donate 73 cents to the Breast Cancer Research centre?” While puzzled for a moment why the odd amount of money, I nodded and immediately got the answer when the change was dropped from the auto change dispenser: my transaction was rounded up to the dollar and the cents were donated. Then I walked out of the store with a warm nice feeling. From my [...]
My name is Calvin Chun-yu Chan, also known as カルビー or Jeepu. I'm a web app developer by trade, with curious and enthusiastic eyes on design, usability, culture and creativity.
Another Cough Notice