All My Faves, the chosen visual homepage of over 5 million users worldwide just got better! We have completed our transition to the new design to create an even better All My Faves experience, on our homepage, the site’s various content pages and on your personalized MyFaves pages. This is hot news, and we’ve even published a press release letting the world know. Here’s a quick peep of the homepage’s new look:
So what does the new design mean to you? Well, first and foremost, the revamped website and the new menus give you quick and easy access to all the content available on AllMyFaves. In addition, we’ve made the entire collection of our designated Mini Faves pages available to you in one easy menu click. Whatever area you are interested in, simply hover over ‘Mini Faves’ and the entire list will appear (ordered alphabetically) – see it below.
Looking for some of the pages you loved visiting in the previous design version of All My Faves? You can find them all, simply hover your mouse over ‘Categories’ and you will get to your favorite games, blogs, education, business, entertainment pages in no time.
Go ahead and play with the newly designed allmyfaves.com site, and see how it feels. For any sort of feedback, please do drop us a line and tell us what’s on you mind – we’d love to hear it: info@allmyfaves.com
Sinuous – This game looks simple. All you have to do is avoid bumping into the red dots. Easy, right? Wrong. Meander your way between the dots, collect the colored number circles and move up to the next level. It gets really complicated as you go along. This cool game uses HTML5, the most advanced development standard for structuring and presenting content on the Web. Sinuous was created by Hakim El Hattab; Sound design by Plan8.
JayCut – With the ambitious goal of making videos like putty in the hands of users, JayCut offers free online video editing service that invites users to become fully engaged with videos rather than simply watching them.
Create and edit your very own video and edit it like a pro with JayCut’s easy and intuitive editor. This software is completely free, and it saves time so you can create your masterpiece in no time! To learn more about JauCut’s online editor, I recommend exploring the demo (click the image below).
From Your Desks – Another Weekly Blog winner, From Your Desks is an inspiring website with a unique concept: “A working collaborative on the canvas of the desk. Both creative + everyday. Plus old work spaces, products and design ideas. Looking at the way we work.”
Every day a new post presents the desk/office environment of working professionals, some of whom you will know, others you will learn about for the first time. By examining the work space of each of these professionals, we get a glimpse of the intricate life of creative people; how they work, what inspires them, even what they enjoy the most in their desk’s surroundings.
Here are a couple of desk entries I found at From Your Desks. Click them to read the full post.
Knock Knock – Stationary is usually rather straightforward and expectable. But here we have Knock Knock, an online store offering super stylish and witty stationary items for the home and office. There are hundreds of cute and funny products on KnockKnock, all beautifully designed and with a humorous added value you won’t find at OfficeDepot.
I recommend starting out with browsing KnockKnock’s Top Selling Stuff. See some of these here below.
The digital age has brought us numerous life-enhancing benefits. Some of the most obvious include super fast communication regardless of geographic location, social networks and virtual communities, and online shopping, just to name a few. But in terms of information consumption, there’s an interesting shift worth noting. I am referring to the infographic, the visually pleasing crossbreed between information and graphics that makes complex concepts, statistics and processes much easier to digest when compared to plain text-and-number info. Here at All My Faves we’ve already featured a few infographic sources, and we also have a special Infographics Mini Faves page for it.
So what makes infographics so different from charts and graphs, you might ask. These, too, serve as visual aids that facilitate data analysis and comprehension, right? Well, as Cool Infographics creator and Inforgraphic Designer Randy Krum explains, “Charts and graphs can communicate data; infographics turn data into information.” The bottom line characteristic of infographics distinguishing it from conventional data information is this: readers of infographics not merely acknowledge changes of statistics and data; they get the bigger picture fast and understand why these changes occurred in the first place.
Let’s dive right into the visuals and you will see why inforgraphics are making a steadfast appearance all over the Web (not to mention in major news websites and newspapers’ printed editions such as the NY Times). The first example is “The 10 Most Expensive Cities to Live In 2010” infographic by the Australian brokerage company, HomeLoanFinder.
Another great infographic example is this one below, showing the Rise of Walking and Biking, from 1990 to 2009 (source: Department of Transportation, appeared in GOOD Magazine, Jun 24, 2010). Click the image to launch the interactive infographic.
This third one is a knock-out, both in terms of aesthetics and functionality. Created by the talented team over at Information is Beautiful, Visualizing Bloodtests is the ultimate data-into-info example, and there’s no wonder why this visualization scored the 1st place in Wired Mag’s re-envisioning medical data design competition.
A standard bloodtest data document. Almost impossible to fully comprehend what’s going on there. and this is crucial to someones’ life!
Now see the magic of infographics (thanks to Information is Beautiful), turning the uncomprehensible document from above to an easy to digest content:
To wrap things up, see this interesting video talking about the use of infographics in the New York Times (via GestaltenTV).
Co. Design – This Fast Company creative project/magazine is loaded with inspiring ideas, beautyful design and superbly written content. According to its editor, Co. Design aims to “bridge the fuzzy border between design and business.” The Co. Design team believes a company’s most important employees are not the CEO, CFO or big shot directors, but rather the designers who design the company’s product, and this approach is pleasantly visible throughout the site.
This winner Weekly Blog offers my ideal kind of posts; large high quality images tastefully garnishing insightful content. To see an example, click the image below which is part of the slideshow post The Last Meals of Death Row Inmates, Beautifully Recreated (Slideshow).
Images by and courtesy of James Reynolds
Robyn – Are you familiar with this Swedish recording artist, singer and songwriter? I admit I wasn’t familiar with Robyn, but her beat mixing platform We Dance to the Beat made me curious and entertained. Although this beat blender might be annoying to some in terms of sound, I found it to be a unique and creative experience. Make your personalized dance to the beat track by adding/removing sounds as you go along, and share the end result with your social network.
We Dance to the Beat is beautifully designed, and for those of you choosing to explore Robyn’s music project, I say turn up the volume and enjoy it.
The 2010 PNC Christmas Price Index – For 27 years now, PNC Bank has been keeping this wonderful tradition of tracking price fluctuations of the gifts mentioned in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” song. This year they’ve created an enchanting interactive website to visualize the 2010 data in comparison to the gifts’ prices in 2009.
See the price change of a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, three French hens, four calling birds and so on, right up to the 12 drummers in 2010. The PNC Christmas Price Index site is so engaging, stunning and fun, learning about the percentages of increase or decrease in the prices of the gifts of Xmas is merely a secondary attraction. Enjoy this one.
Daily Infographic -The sharp rise of infogrpahics (short for information graphics) attests to the growing trend of consuming complicated data in a visual way, which makes the understanding part both fast and more memorable, as opposed to simple numerical statistics. Infographics are particular handy when it comes to complex processes (such as financial, geo-political scenarios, etc.). Daily Infographic vows to post an interesting infographic every day, and they certainly keep that promise.
What kind of infographics will you find on this Weekly Blog winner? See the two interesting posts below, 16 Facts About Sleep and Colors of the Web. Enjoy.
20 Things I Learned About Browsers & The Web – Google sure knows how to pack each of their projects with creativity, interest and a taste for more. This project, published by the Google Chrome Team, cleverly makes the user feel as though he or she is reading a cute and engaging book, telling the story (in simple terms) of the Web, how it works, and explaining relevant key terms (such as cloud computing, web apps, HTML5 and more).
The beautiful illustrations you’ll find as you read along are simple yet super adorable, and they add to the overall look and feel of the 20 Things I Learned project (illustrations by Christoph Neimann).Reading the book from start to finish will take you less than an hour, and it will give you a solid idea of what and where the Web is today.
ShelterPop – Another great blog from AOL Lifestyle, ShelterPop is here to make your home and everything within it, as wonderful as possible. The blog offers ideas, inspirations and how-to’s in numerous categories, including per-room suggestions, famous homes, design & architecture, storage & cleaning, gardening, fun stuff (crafts, parties, etc.), experts and video.
Like all Aol’s other blogs, it’s really fun to explore the various content offered on ShelterPop. Each section is armed with the right amount of images and commentary to persuade you to do something at home. My favorite post on ShelterPop is 8 Easy Bathroom Updates on a Budget.
