Web Designing: 2015 / 5

2015 / 5 vol.166

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Features & Special Reports

Feature 1: Designing UI in the Age of Smartphones

Are you Ready? Techniques and Implementation for Mobile Friendly Sites

With popularity of smartphones among users has surpassed 50%, we can say that we are plunging into the total “Age of the Smartphone.” Against this backdrop new services are popping up one after another. Furthermore on April 21st, Google’s search algorithm was changed to correspondence with ‘smartphone friendly’ giving ‘for mobile’ search results to sites optimized for smartphone usage. What should be the UI design for this age of Smartphones? In this feature we introduce a variety of UI expressions that are optimized for smartphones. These will come in handy in creating mobile friendly sites.

Feature 2: Eight New-Age Creators

See the Skills and Elements Necessary to Surprise the World with the Interactive

Behind the Websites, Campaigns, Apps, or Interactivities that have delighted the world, young energy is always instrumental. From eight profiles of people who have traction in the coming age, we can get a look at the skills and essentials for what the world from now will require.

Inside Story

FACT “the way down”_WebGL×The World’s Longest Music Videos by Smartphones

The band FACT is garnering much attention with two versions of a music video for the song “the way down” released on the album [KTHEAT] on March 4th 2015. One was released on YouTube, while the other was a smartphone only version, which used WebGL to add a number of 3D expressions, and there were points where the two interlocked. Having a smartphone-specific music video is itself already rare, we heard from the creators why they did things this way.

FACT “the way down” Smartphone Music Video

Portrait -Web Craftsman’s Portrait-

KIMURA Masataka (TASCO inc.)_Not an Artist, the Origin of Making Things as “Plant Manager”

Recently the job of Web creator is not just making Website but has expanded to producing real physical things. To make projects like this succeed, there exists an indispensible person. Producing mechanical works that carry a strong impression, KIMURA Masataka does a very good job producing a variety of vivid items. Although he is called an artist for his ability to bring his ideas into physical form, it is not as an artist that he puts food on the table. We focus in on the starting point of his creativity as “Making Things to Put Food on the Table.”

TASKO inc.

TSUKURUHITO

HAROSHI (artist)_“Energetic Sculpture” Born from Used Skateboards

Skillfully joining together the colorful layers of a laminated maple, then carving and scraping away to give birth to a variety of 3D works. In reality he creates works entirely from old skateboards that have fallen out of use, and as an artist HAROSHI breathes new life into these works as sculpture. Starting out as a jewelry designer, he has gone through a number of twists and turns over the years eventually settling getting the idea to express things through the skateboard culture he was close to in his teens. While developing his skill and style according to his own tastes, his current works are continuing to glide toward worldwide recognition. On the cover this month and in this article we display HAROSHI’s works.

HAROSHI
HHH gallery

Mobile Service Front Line

POCKET PARCO_Repeating Small Successes to Create Undiscovered Results

Text: NAKAYA Kenichi

In media recently the term “Omni-Channel” has been heard many times. Integrating every point of contact with customer and the flow of information, “Omni-Channel” is a new configuration that allows the pleasure and convenience of shopping anytime anywhere. While there are number of IT services that have been developed and offered, what plays the most important role is the operational framework and the education of staff members who are in charge of operation. In this article we examine one of the forerunners, Parco, who have integrated the new style of Omni-channel shopping in to all of their stores.

POCKET PARCO

Basis Lecture on JavaScript

Learning 'sort':Dynamic rearrangement of contents

Text: KODAIRA Asami, KIMURA Takeya (ENTACL GRAPHICXXX)

Applied Lecture on Flash for HTML5

Let’s Try to produce HTML5's backgraound by animation

Text: OKI Yoshiya

Running Stories

movement

(Event & Artist introduction)

Worldwide Creator's Archive

MediaMonks_Getting “The Supreme Creatives” to the World

MediaMonks

WD Monthly Archive

We Gathered not only Websites but New Digital Contents that Our Editorial Desk Took Notice of, Such as Applications and Signage.

Kirin Mets Special Site,Oleg Chulakov Studio,Homemade Stoneground Flour Udon Aozora-blue,Karrimor Japan,To a New Lifestyle. NHK,Suidobashi Heavy Industry.,NM4 WORLD NOTION IN TOKYO,Talking Comics App “Professor Death’s Surprise Test”,Hot Factory Corporation,This is REAL, Face Adoption,good loops magazine (magazine which employs gloops),NURO Hikari for Flats State of Everyone’s Recruitment,Pace Sync,BIRDMAN,the virtual BMW at the Geneva motorshow,COCORO Voyage,Romancing Saga 2,Bridgestone Electric-Assist Bicycle,LEXUS AMAZING VISION

one's view

The “Ease” of Greatest Difficulty
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta (PARTY)
Do.

What Brings Back Memories
Text: SAWABE Yoshiaki (1-10 Holdings)
playback.fm

What Kind of Face Does the Innovator Mack the Moment an Idea Hatches?
Text: KAWADA Tom
An illustrated history of Artificial Intelligence

The Seduction of Chance.
Text: SUGANO Kaoru (DENTSU)
The Tummy Translator

SAIHATE Tahi’s “Shikuhack”

Volume 11: Poemunication

shikuhack.jp

Monthly Focus

Unity5_Content of the First Major Version Up in Two Years

This month we cover Unity5 that received a major version update in March. Licensing for the new version was changed to two types, “Personal Edition” (free version), and “Professional Edition” (paid version), which resulted in a large expansion of what can be done with the free license that was not possible until this change. In addition we explain the new pay service and the strong points of what has become, Unity5.