Christmas spirit
December 15, 2007
While I was reading some articles a couple hours ago, I stumbled upon a quite promising website, Christmas greetings from Wieden + Kennedy London. This website’s reason to be is to express your Christmas spirit to friends and family, without killing trees.
I don’t know if it’s the fact that I haven’t slept since Thursday night, but I found the application pretty hard to use, first of all It took me three tries to figure out how to change the color of the tree. The color engine features an eyedropper tool, which by the way selects random colors sometimes and then when you select a color your tree doesn’t change; It was after the third time I tried to change it that I tried to click on the tree and it indeed changed, but the tool never changed to a paint bucket, or any other icon for me to know I needed to do that second action.
Another thing that struck a nerve was the scale feature of the tree ornaments, I was excited when I realized you could do it, simple yet effective; then again when you reach a certain size it gets really difficult to move or scale up or down your ornament.
Even after those little details, I still enjoyed the website and find the concept really interesting, plus, this evokes creativity from users; I’ve seen some quite interesting little trees on it.
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