Hi Will, Well, first off, if you are looking for bands, this looks like a useful tool. The first page is a bit too minimal and the like someone else noted, the drop-down list might be a bit easier with an initiation button so that a slip won't necessarily take you to Dublin. I got the point but also find myself staring at the screen waiting wondering if more was going to show up. The page that you go to with the list of bands for some place like Albuquerque is a mass of lower case in many colors with links on red, blue, gray, and white. I wasn't sure if the log-in on the alert page was tied to the items in the drop-down (proximity principle here). I expected that I could log in to something specific. The bottom left has a minor, but pretty consistent form problem - the email field is not wide enough to accommodate about 60% of emails and if you mistype, you might not get those alerts you suspect. I've wondered why forms and fields for email on the Web are not wider for years now. Sometimes it looks like an attempt at aesthetics, but it is most important to get the email right and a scrolling field that only shows 60% of an email is not a good thing. The tiny text of the cities is a bit hard to read and why no initial caps? I can understand no caps in advertising, but here it would actually help a bit. Here an intial caps for the cities might help differentiate them a bit. I like that the day is there as well as the date. Another small thing that is sometimes missing. I wan't to know if it is a Friday so I can stay out until 2 AM. I typed in "Garfunkle" into the search box and got no results, but did get a free alert field with a city drop-down that was not immediate action (there was a Next button). Seemed like if there were no results, that asking if I wanted an alert was odd, made me a little suspicious. The use of medium blue and red at the bottom of one page was very hard to read and usually you don't want to pair those too colors for text and background. I couldn't figure out how to sign in so I typed in a fake password and username thinking it might take me to a registration page, but that wasn't clear. How does one register?
So, in spite of these nits, I could get a list of bands in different cities reasonably easy. So, it is useful and reasonably usable. Chauncey On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A very good friend of mine designed Tourfilter - we worked together at > Gather.com, and I wanted to know people's thoughts on the stripped down > design - definitely taking a page from my kayak design: > http://www.tourfilter.com/ > > -- > ~ will > > "Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Will Evans | User Experience Architect > tel +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
