Jeff said: > Also, the city scoping doesn't seem to work consistently. Seems like > if I'm in San Francisco and I search for shows, the results should be > limited to San Francisco. And most of the subscribe features seem to > be hardcoded to Boston for some reason...
Yeah, I must say that I'm thoroughly confused about the location thing. I searched for a Death Cab concert that I'm attending this weekend in Toronto, end up on a page whose title is "TourFilter Toronto", and immediately below that is a field saying "subscribe to death cab shows in boston =>". This has got to be a bug... I also expected type-ahead functionality on the first page... it certainly would prevent some spelling errors that are likely to happen with band/artist names. Oh, and I thought that "Search Shows" was a button until I just clicked on it and discovered it was a text box with text pre-filled in it. I think I would have had that text grey, italicized, maybe with an ellipsis, to show it's temporary text and will disappear when I click it. Or else I'd use a standard "Search:" label beside a blank text box. This may be a case where stripping stuff down does damage. Overall it seems like a useful place to track what's going on. I like that it will help me discover similar artists... on the Stars page, for instance, (http://www.tourfilter.com/toronto/stars) I can see everyone else who's tracking them, and what other bands they're tracking. That's a nice way to discover similar artists. Oh, but eek, when I click on Basia Bulat, for instance, I'm taken to the Basia Bulat page but with a lightbox asking me to sign up for an alert. I have to dismiss it before I can continue. Jarring! Will, do you know if they did usability testing at all? I'm curious. Some of the issues I've come across (e.g. the search box thing) seem like they'd be found really quickly in testing and could easily be fixed! Anyway, I'm sure they'll fine-tune some of these things as time goes on. Overall I think it works fairly well, I like the simplicity of it (my eyes appreciate it, for sure) and I may even continue using it myself. Thanks for sharing, Will. Meredith ________________________________________________________________ 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
