Remember about five years ago, when the new hotness in interaction design was to have flashy layers in your website scroll at different speeds, creating a faux-3D effect? The effect was called ...
You might not know what it's called, but you, reader of the Internet, have most likely encountered parallax scrolling — the latest trend in Web design — at some point in the last six months to a year.
Parallax is the observed displacement of an object caused by the change of the observer's point of view. In astronomy, it is an irreplaceable tool for calculating distances of far away stars. When you ...