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An interesting project that is soon coming out of Adobe Labs is Flash Catalyst. This will allow designers to bring their web designs directly from Photoshop or Illustrator and add in interactive elements, such as how forms should work, or scroll-bars operate. Often there is a gap in communication and understanding as the developer tries to interpret from a static design how things should work. An additional benefit to these tools is that the client can see immediately at design stage how things will work once live. This would be of most benefit on larger, more complex websites with a lot of functionality.

This is not the first tool to do this kind of thing however, and it is worth looking at other software out there, most notably Protoshare, and Axure, both of which have some good features.

I liked this banner ad, and accompanying website. The banner is fun, although you could argue the downsides of reversing the mouse for the user, but that only happens when you have already begun to interact, so I think it is acceptable, and really engaging. The website is also superbly executed, although you do need sound really to use it. The flash puzzles have been well designed.

I like this ad from Baileys. A nice way of interaction affecting a video. Fun and simple.

I love this banner ad, but just feel they are missing a final call to action at the end. Fun to play with though

I have seen lots of photography sites and fashion sites on the web, but none of them quite have the same intuitive interaction design as this one. It is so easy to use. You don’t have to move your mouse much to navigate through all of the photos, and the zoom function works great. Also, for such high definition images, the loading time is very reasonable. Fantastic minimalist interface. If all sites thought about the way in which users interact with a website then the Internet would be a much more efficient place.