July 2011

If your brand and on-web persona fit the attempt at humor, that is.

This little piece of fun is from Woot, who pretty much define funny in the e-commerce space.

In this case, I was amused enough to get that little brand affinity glow.

Good experience.

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Mashableahhh by pjsherman
Mashableahhh, a photo by pjsherman on Flickr.

Mashable’s gotten a bit, um, *busy* over the past few months.

OK, it looks like someone barfed food coloring on the page. There. I said it.

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From the Delta Airlines iOS app. It solves the age-old problem of remembering where you’ve parked at the airport.

If you don’t have a fancy-shmancy smartphone, here’s an analog life hack for you: Just write the row number on the little ticket and PUT THE TICKET IN YOUR WALLET (or purse).

Uh, you *do* have a pen in your car, don’t you?

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…but you know you’re going to click anyway.

http://www.gershoni.com

The kicker? They’re a design firm that purports to understand UX design.

 

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Found at an e-Reader display table in an airport somewhere.

The post title says it all really.

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Small But Good Feature by pjsherman
Small But Good Feature, a photo by pjsherman on Flickr.

For whatever reason, I’m not a big RSS feed user. I like visiting blog and aggregation sites rather than taking in the content via a reader. Which is why I appreciate this little feature in the corner of The Consumerist‘s banner that tells me how many posts have been made in the last day.

It’s not as slick as, say, Huffpost‘s auto-refreshing web content, but it does the job nicely for me.

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They call it a dashboard, but it looks more like a middle-period Jackson Pollock painting.

There’s just no good scan to this screen. Like Gertrude Stein’s Oakland, there’s no there there.

OK, let’s get specific:

  • Poor use of white space.
  • Crowded and uneven blocks of text.
  • Mysterious graphs and charts.
  • Color? You know what they say. If you don’t know which to use, just use ‘em all.
  • Speaking of color, if I scored a 93%, why do I get a big “you fail” red circle?
  • Visual black hole at middle-left.
  • It’s unclear where – or even what – the main calls-to-action are.

And today started off so promising…

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