I just found the fantastic Transform effect (Effects → Distort & Transform → Transform) that lets me create a reflection of a shape and translate it so that it’s next to the original. And all in real-time, so I can edit the shape on the right and the whole shield changes!
This is truly fantastic. When I first read the instructions — “play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order” — I thought, “There’s no way this will sound good.”
But it does; it’s better than good. Go play.
I’ll post more about this soon but here are the slides from the pitch/presentation that Jane and I gave in Boulder this past weekend for the Interaction ’11 student competition. All of the brainstorming, ideation, research, iteration, and creation happened during the 3 days of the conference. Lots of fun.
The slides make more sense with narration, so I’ll be adding captions to them soon, or maybe I’ll post a video of the presentation, depending on how the quality is.
Many of the icons are from the free Glyphish set that is licensed under CC-Attribution.
I was just showing a friend the awesome Girl Walk // All Day project on Kickstarter and we both went “Whattt??” (in a good way) when we saw this live/instant/visual search interface. Try for yourself!
You’ll also want to click the scissors towards the bottom of the page. Maybe a couple times.
