Gawking in Traffic - Interactions… designed or not 

Photography can be gorgeous. And photography of food - well, shoot… one of the greatest design opportunites ever. Enter… This Week For Dinner.

The site’s description reads: “This Week for Dinner(TM) is a place where we can share ideas for weekly menu planning. Every Sunday I post my weekly dinner plan. TWFD friends can then post their menus in the comments section, providing me (and everyone else) with fresh ideas every week! I also post other fun ‘foodstuffs’ throughout the week. ”

The blogger is Jane Maynard, who is, as it turns out, my sister. And let me tell you, she does a fabulous job of taking great ideas and using photography to illustrate them. The site itself is your general blog layout, with a white background and cleanly designed logo and banner. The rest of the visual character for the site comes from her photos.

The site itself was a great inspiration for a site concept I’ve been working on at work, but that’s a whole other story… meanwhile, she had a nice posting awhile back about cutting pancakes for toddlers with a pizza cutter.

Simple AND brilliant.

And what does she use to cut her pizza? I’m glad you asked… (click the picture to read more).

zak!

Who left the comment: “the sound of a metal slinky slinking is what does it for me. so cathartic.” You will get an email shortly and your Slinky soon!

Thanks for entering, everyone! There will be another giveaway soon, as well as a new post… before you can say the word ”cathartic.”

To celebrate the launch of Gawking in Traffic, you can win a classic example of fine interaction design - a SLINKY!!!

YEAH! I’m sure you’re excited about this.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post to be entered.

There’s something fantastic in the simple enthrallment of a Slinky. And the whole “Slinky walking down stairs” trick is seriously one of the coolest interactions ever!

And as cool as the iPhone is, can it walk down stairs? It most certainly cannot. Trust me, it just bounces down erratically in a hopeless fall to the cement at the bottom…

So just leave a comment (scroll past the picture) before 11:59pm on Sunday, July 20th and you will be entered into the drawing. A winner will be randomly chosen Monday, July 21st, and will thereafter be able to kick it old school with a sleek new Slinky.

For those readers in the NY area, maybe we’ll have to have a huge Slinky race down the NY Public Library stairs one day. Maybe it could be one MASSIVE giveaway! We’ll have to see about that…