Future of Web Design 2007: 15 things in 15 minutes
Saturday, April 21, 2007Comment, or trackback from your own site.
15 things in 15 minutes
Steve Pearce from Poke London
Good design - fiddle until you get it right. It’s about giving the user pleasure (ooh, err)
1) Our home
Google Earth - like science fiction! Getting better resolution too. Archive, also. In schools.
Crisis in Darfur - puts events in perspective by putting them on a map - closer to the news
2) Travel
kayak.com - unbiased flight search engine - pings back best/cheapest flights. autofill, inline info on results, interesting stats
filtering flight time, name your price to find out exacty where you can go for your money
3) Environmental conscience
howies.co.uk - business with a conscience - tell their message through their products, get the basics right
experience beyond the site - nice returns form with your item. And they have fun.
4) Shopping
topshop.com - updates daily (daily fixes with RSS etc) to showcase the conveyer belt of new content which comes on stream, blogs and editorial features, video podcasts too.
Design manual for topshop.com - inspirational bedtime reading, with some suggestions for future improvement
5) Security
London fashion week - 2 laptops nicked and pictures uploaded to flickr
Undercover - bad news for thieves! Mac gets stolen, report stolen by using your unique ID… stoen laptop calls home, sends location… and takes a photo of the thief
6) Your online activity
garlic.com - track sensitive info, credit ratings. Revealing
7) Social money
zopa - borrowing/lending directly from people
it’s open and transparent
Wealth
globalrichlist.com - your global richlist ranking - social comment to spur people on to donate money - used in schools.
9) Learning
designing interactions by Bill Muggridge. Ask users to mumble to themselves whilst talking through stuff
10) Users in control - creating passionate users
Canyon of pain going from a beginner to an advanced user
11) DIY - travel.dk.com
12) Create positives out of negatives - helpful error messages
13) Web is like a teenager - attitudes have to mature, doodling…
14) Doodling - drawing knobs - cock-a-doodle.com (sex witha miner is particularly amusing)
15) Poke - like everyone else - are hiring
