Keepaboo: Your Child in 3D

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Paul Glazowski
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Keepaboo: Your Child in 3D
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Most anything can be included in a collection - photos, diary notes, growth charts, etc. And in addition to a shareable custom-made volume, Keepaboo also manages to establish a timeline for viewers to observe, regardless of how a book might be laid out. The availability of this alternative is definitely nice to have.

Finding movement

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At first glance, a book made with Keepaboo, called a "LifeBook," may seem a little too simple and fairly slideshow-like. Text and colorful graphics can certainly help establish the feel of a book, but when all is said and done, an interactive bar situated below the lower edge of a particular story line may not do enough to emphasize the 3D nature of the service.

Instead, it is the way individual pages behave in accordance with movement of a cursor that really captures your eye.

Just mouse over the corners of an open book, and you’ll see movement just as you would if you were handling them for real. To some extent, no clicking is necessary to trigger these occurrences,  but if you want to complete a full page turn like so, a combined click-and-drag action will make it happen.

A small suggestion

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Of course, it’s really so basic a thing to do that it shouldn’t warrant heaps of praise. But if I were the individual pulling strings behind the proverbial curtain at Keepaboo, I would quickly work to de-emphasize the buttons and slider bar that sit separate from the main attraction and allow viewers to discover on their own this elegant method for experiencing snapshots.

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