Access Yahoo Groups Through Gmail and Get Rid of Obnoxious Ads
You know those unbearable intersticials at Yahoo Groups that get in the way of reading a message every 4 posts or so? Just subscribe your gmail address on a post-by-post… Read more »
Category: user experience
Home page deconstruction
Matt Jones about Technorati (I posted a comment a few days ago) Michael Sippey on Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz David Wertheimer on home page organization
How to scale media projects beyond static galleries?
Haiko Hebig: Industrial Night and Magic, where headed? "Now that I took Gigabytes of photos in the abandoned and torn down steel mills and other former sites of heavy industries… Read more »
Dayparting Design
Signal vs. Noise: Design on the Clock "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer launched an innovative home page redesign today. The layout changes based on the time of day. They have an afternoon… Read more »
Google Clutter is Fair Enough
Try this link in 800×600. Depending on how much chrome you’re using you might get less than two full search results above the fold. And this page doesn’t even include… Read more »
Online Shopping by Color
Signal vs. Noise: Shopping by Color "J.Crew now lets you shop by color. For example, here are brown or grey or green sweaters." Here’s the shop-by-color landing page. Excellent idea,… Read more »
Why I Hate Microsoft (Rant for Scoble)
Scoble wants to know why people hate Microsoft. Well, here’s what the company really needs to realize. You’re not smarter than us, so lose that pretense in your software. That… Read more »
Buymusic.com Sells Music Like Sausage (Weekend Music Rant Part MCXIV)
Do a couple searches on Buymusic.com and it’s obvious they don’t care about music at all. From spelling mistakes (for instance "Anne Peebles" — it’s Ann) to the underlying assumption… Read more »
Table Highlighting at Orbitz
Signal vs. Noise: "Orbitz’ "flex search" offers a helpful feature where you can specify additional dates to include in your search (e.g. 1 day before and after the date you… Read more »
Amazon & Google Visual Search
Not terribly useful, but fun: Anacubis (radial links), Honeycomb (like SmartMoney’s square market map).