I have seen A LOT of different interaction models on the web and conceptual ways of navigating through content. But I have never seen this.

Designer Jacob Hoving has a page titled “Collection” on his website dedicated to his concepts and sketches. Each image has a specific size in pixels, and the way you navigate to it is by resizing your browser window until you match the highlighted screen dimensions that correspond to that image 🤯

Love it!

Website of the week. Don’t even ask me how I found it.

Arngren.net is a real Norwegian online shop that sells a chaotic mix of products: electronics, RC stuff, scooters and e-bikes, small “gadgets,” lighting, and more.

Everything about it is amazing! Whoever designed it never got the memo on how the web is supposed to look and behave, and somehow got it right. It feels honest. I spent ten times more time on this site clicking on random stuff than on anything else I visited this week, and I don’t even speak Norwegian.

If you think it is crazy, try doing something like this. This shit is so hard that 99% of you won’t be able to get even close.

Time Stretched No.60

Another example of bridging physical with digital.

Apple did not invent the sleep indicator with the iBook G3 in 1999, earlier PowerBooks already had one. But the iBook gave it a different quality. Instead of a hard mechanical blink, the light slowly pulsed, letting you know that even though the laptop looked off, it was still alive, just asleep.

Over the years the position, color and design of the indicator changed, but one thing stayed the same: the rhythm. Since the laptop was “sleeping,” the animation was designed to feel like breathing, close to the tempo of a resting human body 😮‍💨. That is probably why it came across as so human, comforting, and strangely easy to relate to. Apple even patented it.

This light has been gone for a long time now, and I still kind of miss it.

Merch of the week. (Source)