Design Tips

The Design Tips section offers tips and tricks of the trade, as well as exclusive insights into parts of FI’s projects, processes and activities. We want to share our experience and let you know our thoughts on what good interactive design and development is.

This section will expand to include other areas of expertise within FI, such as Interactive Tips and Application Tips. Check back soon for more info!

MTV

FI gave MTV a next-generation make-over, and created a flowy, seamless video and content experience for the web’s biggest free broadband video channel that MTV is today. We structured and designed a lot of content, and dealt with a many paramount usability and navigation issues.

Road Runner Components

Road Runner is a long-term client of FI, and we have worked on several design and interactive components for the RR portal. This includes themes, graphical interface frames, icons, color schemes, and more. The RR designs are always geared towards a very broad target audience, offering a nice challenge for FI.

AOL Coaches

This interactive platform for different topics, such as diet, love, family, money and career features expert coaches that guide the users in fun and engaging ways. We decided to use strong colors to achieve contrast, different layers to achieve depth and the illusion of more space, and added interactive video features.

AOL Games

This game portal is 100% skinable to satisfy the discerning gamers spending time on the portal. Users can track their favorite games, get game news, watch videos, and more. Each graphical component was designed to work on its own in different environments, and the grey color palette offered us this flexibility.

Road runner Play Four

A word maven’s delight, this neat puzzle offers word challenges with added graphical pizzazz. We used shades of green, complemented with reds to suggest the time push that solvers are under. The soft cream color gives the application a balanced base, and the interactive smoothness adds further refinement.

Road runner Crossword

FI took an iconic puzzle favorite and gave it a next-generation treatment. Touches like extreme usability, crisp and clear design, and fun, seamless interactivity entice players. An old-fashioned book style is the basis, and we added a Sherlock Holmes detective theme with the traditional hat, magnifying glass and pipe.

Road runner Sudoku

This online addiction brought a new level of graphical interaction to players of all ages. The inherent Asian theme is reflected in the background images and the mascot dragon. Users can play by only using the mouse pointer, and the app maps the behaviors of pencil use.

Road runner Photo Pod

Road Runner’s amazing library of photos are collected and displayed in this highly interactive pod. The huge amount of photos is made manageable without feeling overwhelming or difficult to navigate. 35 concurrent thumbnails, email to a friend-function and a voting system are some of the other features.