An RIT redesigned site has gone live today which I made a contribution to. The Academic Affairs website has a flash visual navigation system on the home page. Below you can see my contributions to the motion and feel of the interface.

Here’s what I started with:

More cursor dependent:

better scaling:

Added transparency, smoother animation if mouse movement is fast (exaggerated):

Final piece – preloader (for those not on Internet2 speeds), and the figures will all return to the default size regardless of how fast you move your mouse off of the SWF (unlike the previous examples):