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Augmented (Hyper) Reality

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We found one brilliant short film produced by Keiichi Matsuda for his final year Masters in Architecture.

“It forms part of a larger project around the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality. Matsuda suggests that as the expansion/progression and blending of digital utilities and platforms continues into the latter half of the 20th century, there is a distinct possibility that we will see the merging of the online and offline worlds through hyper-reality. This hyper-reality will provide a cacophony of imagery and sound through a constant and always on media space. Architecture will take on a whole new role for branding, image-building and consumerism”.

See his short film in action..

If you prefer watching in youtube itself, follow this link.

You can also watch on Vimeo, follow this link.


10 Most Watched YouTube Videos of All Time (so far)

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We all love YouTube. It is the best video website of the world. There we can upload, view and share video clips. Its bandwidth costs are estimated at approximately $1 million a day. It has millions of videos.  Have you ever thought which are the most viewed videos on YouTube so far while im writing? Then today we are sharing the list of top 10 most viewed videos on YouTube from our findings.

  1. Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris – 250,887,548 views
  2. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance – 247,649,325 views
  3. Charlie bit my finger – again ! – 211,194,023 views
  4. Evolution of Dance – By Judson Laipply – 147,675,085 views
  5. Miley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A. – 139,480,486 views
  6. Pitbull – I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) (Available on ULTRA MIX 2 NOW!) – 132,371,769 views
  7. Hahaha – 129,228,616 views
  8. Miley Cyrus – 7 Things – 125,546,375 views
  9. Lady Gaga – Just Dance ft. Colby O’Donis – 117,235,440 views
  10. Jeff Dunham – Achmed the… – 115,762,625 views
  11. As we are reading now the views count should be more than these. Anyway, enjoy the videos!

Future Touchscreen to have Texture Sense

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Soon enough the technology will feature sense and feeling texture on the touchscreen like fabric, sand and water. The innovation adds the sensation of texture in relation to the displayed image by implementing vibrations technology. Though it may seem like an unbelievable reality comes from the future, more and more companies are designing prototypes that feature this “Feel Screen” technology.

feelscreen 546x330 Future Touchscreen to have Texture Sense

Herewith we present you few demonstration videos of these “FeelScreen” prototypes.

Disney Research: TeslaTouch

 

Senseg

 

EPFL

 

 

 

The Best Milky Way Video Taken with Digital Camera

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While browsing the web for ideas and information, we stumbled upon this video which has taken our breath away beyond imagination. Captured over El Teide, Spain’s highest mountain using a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera SLR, the Milky Way galaxy might be the heaven itself featuring its beautiful scenery of stars and harmony of colors. This could be the best Milky Way video taken with a digital camera. Now sit back and enjoy the video. It’s simply stunning.

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Awesome Transparent Smart Window

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Imagine you wake up in the morning and first thing you see is your room windows with Eiffel Tower surrounding scenery, even better you can have Yellowstone National Park best sight or the view of high altitude of Himalayan rocky mountains of Everest. Anything! Customize it whatever you want to see. This is the potential of an awesome transparent smart window that we are going to show you.

smart window 546x301 Awesome Transparent Smart Window

If you have attended, you might have seen this at CES 2012, the annual event of largest consumer technology exhibition participated by giants like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, HTC and others as well. Samsung has done it again as usual, this time one of their coolest gizmo is the Samsung’s Transparent Smart Window. See the video below first.

 
Awesome isn’t it? Not that its very new to some, but after watching it we cannot imagine the vast potential of how the technology will revolutionize our near future. From room and house windows to car and airplanes.

What? Even better, this window technology has started taking its place to car manufacturers like BMW, GM and others too. The next video brings you how this window tech will be use in all of our cars in the future, or sooner than that.

 
What do you say? Can’t wait are you? Same here.

Supakitch and Koralie Art Galleries for Design Inspiration

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We can’t resist on accepting the fact that these couple of talented wall art galleries painting designers are very creative and truly inspiring. Influenced by Japanese art and tend to showcase images of geishas, dragons and other element of culture, made their designs very unique and amazing. Follow these two videos of which we think two of the best wall art painting in the making ever captured.

supakitch koralie Supakitch and Koralie Art Galleries for Design Inspiration

“Manga and music are my main influences; everything comes from there, but it’s not nostalgia. The subjects I’m working on now are real and even if I treat it with my critical sense and my actual vision of the world, I’m still a big child who never grew up.”

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Augmented Reality Google Glass Project is All Hype?

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Have you ever imagined looking all around through your visual field with few data superimposed and virtual captions that enhance the scan of your eyes? Just by few gestures and voice controls you can interact with what you see, update your social status, find your way through maps, make voice and video calls, and lot of other things that we can imagine. Follow us to see more what this is about.

google glass project Augmented Reality Google Glass Project is All Hype?

Recently, started on April 2012, Google has started testing a futuristic product called Project Glass. It is a research and development program by Google to prototype and builds an augmented reality head-mounted display (or HMD). The New York Times reported that the glasses would be available to the public for “around the cost of current smartphones” – $250 to $600 – by the end of 2012, but other reports has stated that the glasses are not expected to be available for purchase soon. Google has patented the design of Project Glass, the augmented reality (AR) spectacles. The intended purpose of Project Glass products would be the hands free displaying of information currently available to most smartphone users, and allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands, in a manner similar to the iPhone application Siri. The software powering the glasses will be Google’s Android operating system. (Wikipedia)

The same mission also will be leading towards the use of Augmented Reality in contact lens. The same technical lead of Project Glass, Mr. Parviz, who is also an associate professor at the University of Washington, specializes in bionanotechnology, which is the fusion of tiny technologies and biology. He most recently built a tiny contact lens that has embedded electronics and can display pixels to a person’s eye.

augmented reality contact lens Augmented Reality Google Glass Project is All Hype?

Image: Raygun Studio

Whether these two projects can be a reality or not let’s just wait and see. Before that, enjoy this promo video of “Augmented Reality Goodle Glass – Project Glass: One day..” and tell us what you think.
 

 Check out our previous post on Augmented (Hyper) Reality.

 

Marketing campaigns which led to a change

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Before we tackle the subject of marketing campaigns that made a difference, let’s be sure that everyone understands exactly what a marketing campaign is.  A marketing campaign is kind of like a carefully choreographed dance.  It’s a series of steps pain stakingly correlated that aid promotion of a certain item or service through various mediums (newspapers, television, online, etc.,) using several kinds of advertisements.  It doesn’t have to rely on advertising alone as there’s also word of mouth communication.marketingcampaign-cocacola

Okay, now that we’ve cleared that up let’s take a look at some prominent marketing campaigns that made a difference:

Coke’s Move to the Beat

This campaign was created to publicize Coca Cola’s standing as one of the official sponsors of the 2012 Olympics.  Conventional wisdom had it that the company needed to avoid its usual type of campaign and do something a bit more narrowed down.  It is just like focusing on one concept.  So marketers designed a campaign built around the fact that Coke is a ‘liquid’.

The outcome was a song that depicted Coke’s now famous beat that had everyone moving.  By using algorithms and data, what was called the ‘beat’ of our lives was born.

The Inner Bond Concept

A different notion was dreamed up to promote Skyfall, the latest James Bond film.  One more time the marketing gods had to invent an concept that everyone who saw it could relate to.  They came up with the idea of appealing to the James Bond we all have lurking inside of us, ready to leap into action at a moment’s notice.

It all began at Liverpool Street Station, London with a rigged Coke machine.  If you bought a drink, instead of a Coke, you received a message that you had 70 seconds to arrive at another platform to win a prize.  That notice sent action lovers racing through the station, battling obstacles which delayed them, like people, dogs and fruit.  Yes, I said fruit.  If the Bond imitators arrived at the next platform before time ran out, all that was required of them was to sing the Bond theme and they would be given a pair of tickets to the film’s premier screening.

West Jet Christmas Miracle Video

One Christmas season, customers of West Jet Airlines arrived at the airport for their expected flight without any clue that something was up.  When they reached the gate, they were greeted by the sight of a large gift with a webcam of Santa positioned inside of it.  Some of the passengers played along and walked up to the present to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas.  Afterwards they boarded their flight.

When the passengers reached their destination, they did the usual and went to the baggage claim area to claim their belongings.  But they didn’t get their expected luggage back.  Rather, presents came out with all of the gifts inside that they had asked Santa Claus for.

This campaign was thrilling and awesome for all of the West Jet customers who had their wishes magically come true.  No matter what they asked for, they got it, and the company’s name recognition soared to new heights.

All of the above mentioned campaigns made a difference because they were able to capture people’s imaginations and hearts, their secret desires and dreams, release the hidden hero inside of them, or just bring pleasure.  Regardless, they didn’t forget or ignore the human element that makes a marketing campaign a success or failure.  They reached out to people, getting them to participate, to feel, to wonder, to share an experience, and that was the secret to their unbelievable success.

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How to give your website a fresh feel

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Website design is becoming much more accessible and easier for people to do themselves. It is now much simpler to customise a website to fit an individual and unique style. You no longer have to be a website designer to improve the look and feel of your site.

So, if your website is feeling a little stale, all you may need is a few little tweaks to be able to make it feel like new again. It is important to remember that your site is just a tiny little part of a gigantic sea that is the internet. You are gaining more and more neighbours online every single day, 100,000 to give you an idea.

But, there are some things you can do to get your site a little closer to the surface. Here are the best 5 website design tips to help you stand out.

Reboot with Images

Give your website a fresh boost of life with some new images. Updating your images provides something new and exciting for returning visitors and something to entice first-time visitors. It is best to try and use high-quality images that you can rotate regularly in and out of your site design.

The best option for a website is to hire a photographer for a custom set of images if you have the budget. If not, stock images are a great alternative. You can try a slider format on your homepage to help keep it varied. Be very selective when it comes to stock photography though, try not to use ‘cardboard cut-out style’ images that appear in way to many places.

Transform Typography

You don’t have to use Arial for every single letter on your website. A strong and varied range of typefaces can help to create a hierarchy and visual interest. Pair your type as best you can by picking two type families for your site. Stick to a simple font for the bulk of your website text and then pair it with a serif or novelty typeface for big lettering or accents.

A poster typeface for big lettering paired with a complementary paragraph font is the best collaboration. Try some trial and error with different types around your site so that you can see how they will look at certain sizes and with certain amounts of text.

Enhance with a Trendy Hue

Bold and bright pop-ups of colour can give a flat website a new lease of life. Fully saturated hues are fun, lively and popular. You don’t have to rethink your branding completely to add in a dash of colour. Just take your current palette and include one bonus colour for website use. A bright lime green is great for accents such as buttons, links or calls to actions in sites with dark backgrounds.

You can also create bright and colourful online posters to help revive your website. It brings information to people while looking interesting, fun, bright and colourful while still serving their purpose. Click here for more information on creating an online poster for your site.

Add a video

A video is a great visual element for your website. It doesn’t have to be really fancy and long, you could just loop a few seconds of video onto the homepage to promote what your whole website is about. Use something unique about your company or brand in the video and pair it with a short bit of text or call to action.

Gage interest with Icons

Add in some visual interest with some icons. It’s a different way to communicate than with just text, an icon pack can give a set of visual cues for common actions such as shopping carts or social media links. You can create or download your icon pack with a consistent set of visuals to be used throughout your design.

They can also bring attention to certain parts of your website design. Strategically place them above small text blocks to create visual flow and direct users on how to navigate through information. Just make sure you use your icons consistently to keep with the same theme.

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Augmented (Hyper) Reality

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We found one brilliant short film produced by Keiichi Matsuda for his final year Masters in Architecture.

“It forms part of a larger project around the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality. Matsuda suggests that as the expansion/progression and blending of digital utilities and platforms continues into the latter half of the 20th century, there is a distinct possibility that we will see the merging of the online and offline worlds through hyper-reality. This hyper-reality will provide a cacophony of imagery and sound through a constant and always on media space. Architecture will take on a whole new role for branding, image-building and consumerism”.

See his short film in action..

If you prefer watching in youtube itself, follow this link.

The post Augmented (Hyper) Reality appeared first on WPTidBits.

10 Most Watched YouTube Videos of All Time (so far)

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We all love YouTube. It is the best video website of the world. There we can upload, view and share video clips. Its bandwidth costs are estimated at approximately $1 million a day. It has millions of videos.  Have you ever thought which are the most viewed videos on YouTube so far while im writing? Then today we are sharing the list of top 10 most viewed videos on YouTube from our findings.

  1. Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris – 250,887,548 views
  2. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance – 247,649,325 views
  3. Charlie bit my finger – again ! – 211,194,023 views
  4. Evolution of Dance – By Judson Laipply – 147,675,085 views
  5. Miley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A. – 139,480,486 views
  6. Pitbull – I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) (Available on ULTRA MIX 2 NOW!) – 132,371,769 views
  7. Hahaha – 129,228,616 views
  8. Miley Cyrus – 7 Things – 125,546,375 views
  9. Lady Gaga – Just Dance ft. Colby O’Donis – 117,235,440 views
  10. Jeff Dunham – Achmed the… – 115,762,625 views
  11. As we are reading now the views count should be more than these. Anyway, enjoy the videos!

    The post 10 Most Watched YouTube Videos of All Time (so far) appeared first on WPTidBits.

Future Touchscreen to have Texture Sense

Next: The Best Milky Way Video Taken with Digital Camera
Previous: 10 Most Watched YouTube Videos of All Time (so far)
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0

Soon enough the technology will feature sense and feeling texture on the touchscreen like fabric, sand and water. The innovation adds the sensation of texture in relation to the displayed image by implementing vibrations technology. Though it may seem like an unbelievable reality comes from the future, more and more companies are designing prototypes that feature this “Feel Screen” technology.

Herewith we present you few demonstration videos of these “FeelScreen” prototypes.

Disney Research: TeslaTouch

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Senseg

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EPFL

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The Best Milky Way Video Taken with Digital Camera

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Previous: Future Touchscreen to have Texture Sense
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While browsing the web for ideas and information, we stumbled upon this video which has taken our breath away beyond imagination. Captured over El Teide, Spain’s highest mountain using a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera SLR, the Milky Way galaxy might be the heaven itself featuring its beautiful scenery of stars and harmony of colors. This could be the best Milky Way video taken with a digital camera. Now sit back and enjoy the video. It’s simply stunning.

 

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Awesome Transparent Smart Window

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Imagine you wake up in the morning and first thing you see is your room windows with Eiffel Tower surrounding scenery, even better you can have Yellowstone National Park best sight or the view of high altitude of Himalayan rocky mountains of Everest. Anything! Customize it whatever you want to see. This is the potential of an awesome transparent smart window that we are going to show you.

If you have attended, you might have seen this at CES 2012, the annual event of largest consumer technology exhibition participated by giants like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, HTC and others as well. Samsung has done it again as usual, this time one of their coolest gizmo is the Samsung’s Transparent Smart Window. See the video below first.

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Awesome isn’t it? Not that its very new to some, but after watching it we cannot imagine the vast potential of how the technology will revolutionize our near future. From room and house windows to car and airplanes.

What? Even better, this window technology has started taking its place to car manufacturers like BMW, GM and others too. The next video brings you how this window tech will be use in all of our cars in the future, or sooner than that.

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What do you say? Can’t wait are you? Same here.

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Supakitch and Koralie Art Galleries for Design Inspiration

Next: Augmented Reality Google Glass Project is All Hype?
Previous: Awesome Transparent Smart Window
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We can’t resist on accepting the fact that these couple of talented wall art galleries painting designers are very creative and truly inspiring. Influenced by Japanese art and tend to showcase images of geishas, dragons and other element of culture, made their designs very unique and amazing. Follow these two videos of which we think two of the best wall art painting in the making ever captured.

“Manga and music are my main influences; everything comes from there, but it’s not nostalgia. The subjects I’m working on now are real and even if I treat it with my critical sense and my actual vision of the world, I’m still a big child who never grew up.”

 

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Augmented Reality Google Glass Project is All Hype?

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Have you ever imagined looking all around through your visual field with few data superimposed and virtual captions that enhance the scan of your eyes? Just by few gestures and voice controls you can interact with what you see, update your social status, find your way through maps, make voice and video calls, and lot of other things that we can imagine. Follow us to see more what this is about.

Recently, started on April 2012, Google has started testing a futuristic product called Project Glass. It is a research and development program by Google to prototype and builds an augmented reality head-mounted display (or HMD). The New York Times reported that the glasses would be available to the public for “around the cost of current smartphones” – $250 to $600 – by the end of 2012, but other reports has stated that the glasses are not expected to be available for purchase soon. Google has patented the design of Project Glass, the augmented reality (AR) spectacles. The intended purpose of Project Glass products would be the hands free displaying of information currently available to most smartphone users, and allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands, in a manner similar to the iPhone application Siri. The software powering the glasses will be Google’s Android operating system. (Wikipedia)

The same mission also will be leading towards the use of Augmented Reality in contact lens. The same technical lead of Project Glass, Mr. Parviz, who is also an associate professor at the University of Washington, specializes in bionanotechnology, which is the fusion of tiny technologies and biology. He most recently built a tiny contact lens that has embedded electronics and can display pixels to a person’s eye.

Image: Raygun Studio

Whether these two projects can be a reality or not let’s just wait and see. Before that, enjoy this promo video of “Augmented Reality Goodle Glass – Project Glass: One day..” and tell us what you think.
 

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 Check out our previous post on Augmented (Hyper) Reality.

 

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Marketing campaigns which led to a change

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Before we tackle the subject of marketing campaigns that made a difference, let’s be sure that everyone understands exactly what a marketing campaign is.  A marketing campaign is kind of like a carefully choreographed dance.  It’s a series of steps pain stakingly correlated that aid promotion of a certain item or service through various mediums (newspapers, television, online, etc.,) using several kinds of advertisements.  It doesn’t have to rely on advertising alone as there’s also word of mouth communication.marketingcampaign-cocacola

Okay, now that we’ve cleared that up let’s take a look at some prominent marketing campaigns that made a difference:

Coke’s Move to the Beat

This campaign was created to publicize Coca Cola’s standing as one of the official sponsors of the 2012 Olympics.  Conventional wisdom had it that the company needed to avoid its usual type of campaign and do something a bit more narrowed down.  It is just like focusing on one concept.  So marketers designed a campaign built around the fact that Coke is a ‘liquid’.

The outcome was a song that depicted Coke’s now famous beat that had everyone moving.  By using algorithms and data, what was called the ‘beat’ of our lives was born.

The Inner Bond Concept

A different notion was dreamed up to promote Skyfall, the latest James Bond film.  One more time the marketing gods had to invent an concept that everyone who saw it could relate to.  They came up with the idea of appealing to the James Bond we all have lurking inside of us, ready to leap into action at a moment’s notice.

It all began at Liverpool Street Station, London with a rigged Coke machine.  If you bought a drink, instead of a Coke, you received a message that you had 70 seconds to arrive at another platform to win a prize.  That notice sent action lovers racing through the station, battling obstacles which delayed them, like people, dogs and fruit.  Yes, I said fruit.  If the Bond imitators arrived at the next platform before time ran out, all that was required of them was to sing the Bond theme and they would be given a pair of tickets to the film’s premier screening.

West Jet Christmas Miracle Video

One Christmas season, customers of West Jet Airlines arrived at the airport for their expected flight without any clue that something was up.  When they reached the gate, they were greeted by the sight of a large gift with a webcam of Santa positioned inside of it.  Some of the passengers played along and walked up to the present to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas.  Afterwards they boarded their flight.

When the passengers reached their destination, they did the usual and went to the baggage claim area to claim their belongings.  But they didn’t get their expected luggage back.  Rather, presents came out with all of the gifts inside that they had asked Santa Claus for.

This campaign was thrilling and awesome for all of the West Jet customers who had their wishes magically come true.  No matter what they asked for, they got it, and the company’s name recognition soared to new heights.

All of the above mentioned campaigns made a difference because they were able to capture people’s imaginations and hearts, their secret desires and dreams, release the hidden hero inside of them, or just bring pleasure.  Regardless, they didn’t forget or ignore the human element that makes a marketing campaign a success or failure.  They reached out to people, getting them to participate, to feel, to wonder, to share an experience, and that was the secret to their unbelievable success.

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How to give your website a fresh feel

Previous: Marketing campaigns which led to a change
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Website design is becoming much more accessible and easier for people to do themselves. It is now much simpler to customise a website to fit an individual and unique style. You no longer have to be a website designer to improve the look and feel of your site.

So, if your website is feeling a little stale, all you may need is a few little tweaks to be able to make it feel like new again. It is important to remember that your site is just a tiny little part of a gigantic sea that is the internet. You are gaining more and more neighbours online every single day, 100,000 to give you an idea.

But, there are some things you can do to get your site a little closer to the surface. Here are the best 5 website design tips to help you stand out.

Reboot with Images

Give your website a fresh boost of life with some new images. Updating your images provides something new and exciting for returning visitors and something to entice first-time visitors. It is best to try and use high-quality images that you can rotate regularly in and out of your site design.

The best option for a website is to hire a photographer for a custom set of images if you have the budget. If not, stock images are a great alternative. You can try a slider format on your homepage to help keep it varied. Be very selective when it comes to stock photography though, try not to use ‘cardboard cut-out style’ images that appear in way to many places.

Transform Typography

You don’t have to use Arial for every single letter on your website. A strong and varied range of typefaces can help to create a hierarchy and visual interest. Pair your type as best you can by picking two type families for your site. Stick to a simple font for the bulk of your website text and then pair it with a serif or novelty typeface for big lettering or accents.

A poster typeface for big lettering paired with a complementary paragraph font is the best collaboration. Try some trial and error with different types around your site so that you can see how they will look at certain sizes and with certain amounts of text.

Enhance with a Trendy Hue

Bold and bright pop-ups of colour can give a flat website a new lease of life. Fully saturated hues are fun, lively and popular. You don’t have to rethink your branding completely to add in a dash of colour. Just take your current palette and include one bonus colour for website use. A bright lime green is great for accents such as buttons, links or calls to actions in sites with dark backgrounds.

You can also create bright and colourful online posters to help revive your website. It brings information to people while looking interesting, fun, bright and colourful while still serving their purpose. Click here for more information on creating an online poster for your site.

Add a video

A video is a great visual element for your website. It doesn’t have to be really fancy and long, you could just loop a few seconds of video onto the homepage to promote what your whole website is about. Use something unique about your company or brand in the video and pair it with a short bit of text or call to action.

Gage interest with Icons

Add in some visual interest with some icons. It’s a different way to communicate than with just text, an icon pack can give a set of visual cues for common actions such as shopping carts or social media links. You can create or download your icon pack with a consistent set of visuals to be used throughout your design.

They can also bring attention to certain parts of your website design. Strategically place them above small text blocks to create visual flow and direct users on how to navigate through information. Just make sure you use your icons consistently to keep with the same theme.

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