Sites of the Week: Recroup, Constitute, Lodgify and more

Sites of the Week: Recroup, Constitute, Lodgify and more

Today you’ll find here nice services and apps with beautiful websites such as Flow, Lodgify and GistBox. Also take a look at Recroup an awesome services for companies and job seekers. Check out these sites and the whole selection, share with us what you think and stay tuned for the next week!

Take a look on all the other sites we’re featuring today. Also you can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe and include #abdz_sites in the message.

DESIGN / CSS

Lodgify – lodgify.com

Use lodgify to create your own vacation rental website.

Lodgify

Greyp Bikes – greyp-bikes.com

A bicycle when you want it, a motorcycle when you need it.

Greyp Bikes

APP / WEB APP / SERVICE

GistBox – gistboxapp.co

The Beautiful Way to Organize Code Snippets. GistBox is the personal code library you’ve always wanted

GistBox

Flow – getflow.com

Flow is a task management app that makes working with your team a breeze. Work from a browser, your iPhone, or your email—no syncing required. Collaborate with friends, family, and coworkers all in one place..

Flow

COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE / EVENT

Constitute – constituteproject.org

The world’s constitutions to read, search and compare.

Constitute

Recroup – recroup.com

With 100’s of people competing for 1 job, a resume is not enough to stand out. On Recroup, job seekers can validate their skills by taking skill test and receive score on their online activities.

Recroup

STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

Pavel Huza – pavelhuza.com

I’m a Czech Republic based web designer & front‑end developer focused on crafting clean & user‑friendly experiences.

Pavel Huza

Sadi Consati – sadiconsati.com

Makeup artist, creative consultant in the development and creation of make-up, Beauty Consultant and Specialist Makeup on TV shows.

Sadi Consati

THEMES / KITS

Bright – themeforest.net

Bright is a professional portfolio theme with a friendly touch.

Bright

(M) Social – gavick.com

This WordPress theme has been developed to support BuddyPress plugin which lets you to create profiles, post messages and make connections with all community.

(M) Social

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Sound in user experience design

Sound in user experience design

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works…and sounds.

The web is home to thousands of sites dedicated to showcasing great design, but the majority of these are focused purely on the visual, meaning that the audible aspect of design is often overlooked.

It’s an issue that user experience designer and musician, Jordan Kolasinski, addresses with his latest project, Beyond The Beep, a blog described as “a look (and listen) at the use of sounds in user experience design”.

It’s a project that combines his love of both design and music:

Sounds from our digital devices can achieve so much – they give feedback to our actions, communicate different states of a system, talk to us when we’re not looking, and enforce the personality or brand of products. Despite their great efficiency and potential, UX sounds have a reputation of being annoying, and if their depiction in TV and film was accurate, every little thing a computer did would be accompanied by an early 1990′s-sounding beep.

From a lifelong love and study of music, I’m definitely biased towards the enormous power and communicative potential of sound. I hope to use this bias to help you appreciate the tiny music our digital devices make, and to maybe even inspire the creation of more clever and communicative sounds.

So far Jordan has analysed the sounds of products such as the iPhone, Apple TV, Skype and Facebook. Speaking of which, his analysis of the latter lead to a surprising, but delightful, discovery:

When one of your friends attempts to initiate a video chat with you, a louder “ringing” arpeggio plays and repeats. What are the notes in this sound, you may wonder? It plays the first 4 notes of the F Major 7 chord, which are – I kid you not – F, A, C and E.

Pretty cool, right? Be sure to check out the rest of Jordan’s post on Facebook’s UI sounds here.

 

What is your opinion of sound in UX design? Do you have any favorite examples to share? Let us know in the comments.

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