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Johanna Sneed

@johannasneed.com
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Digital Accessibility Consultant, UX Researcher, MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Experienced in UX and App Dev Management ✦ I run: userexperience.directory ✦ I am: www.johannasneed.com

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Johanna Sneed @johannasneed.com · 20/02/2025
There are so few examples of surprise and delight, I bookmark them. This is my final boss(hint: it’s not confetti on click) Captured from uxdesign.cc/wheres-the-f...
Screen capture of a a promotion email for the Transfromers Fall of Cybertron. In the left, the I image displays a graphic of the transformers. On the right, the same graphic is portrayed by empty images and blank boxes forming the shape of the autobot logo. The article text reads: Taking this idea further — and this is where we get to the easter egg! — Chris Donald describes how Sony PlayStation sliced their hero image into separate blocks with different background colours to create fallback pixel art out of those blocks if the images fail to load. “The email’s hero image has been sliced and styled to reveal the Transformers’ Autobots logo when images are disabled.” (screenshot and quote via Chris Donald)
This example really captures the essence of deliberately adding alternative versions of playful touches where the standard use case (assuming images will load) doesn’t apply.
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