We’re still not quite done with the pinyin and definition redesign, but to keep everyone up to date before we release a public beta of our work, I thought I’d share a sort of humorous look at how we designed two measly menus on the practice page.
The following video is made up of 1080 still frames taken over the course of 10 working hours last week using a program called TimeSnapper. I only omitted two things from the video: a Google Wave discussion (it was related to the design, but isn’t much fun to watch) and me spending about 15 minutes editing my Winamp playlist (incidentally most of the design work was done to Rammstein’s new album). You won’t be able to see some of the fine detail due to compression and scaling, but hopefully you can enjoy the frantic pace of it.
As per my last post about this topic, the biggest thing missing from the video is our discussions, deliberations, and general iterative design.