This week’s featured designs on Friday Focus are all about books of the online variety, complete with the animated page-turning effects.
Designs of the Week
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I think the book pages need a sprinkle more of depth but the mix of textures both in it and in the background look great. Every spread is a section with a different look.
If you’ll notice, this layout only uses the right side of the book once you open it. To the left is a red bookmark which lets you share the current page you’re on. What really drives the book interface home here, in my opinion, are the illustrations. Some of which happen to be animated. The table of contents (“things” actually) is not a list of chapter titles and numbers, but thumbnails containing such illustrations, which you can also find below the book. I think this site has the most natural and aesthetically pleasing page-turn effect of the bunch.
More familiar techniques going on when imitating a real world look: the cloth cover of hardbacks, tabs that are almost always in red, off-white paper, all on a wooden surface with coffee stains to boot. It’s interesting to find the ability to skip to a chapter at the footer of a page, and something you don’t find in real-life books: search.
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