Hi Shep No offense taken. I have no personal stake in this site whatsoever, so feel free to rip away.
I had no technical difficulties or latency with the navigation, so I can't comment on those issues. There are some load times on a few other pages, but I think the target audience for this website is probably an 18-25 year old used to watching youtube videos and downloading and therefore with more patience in this regard. A few innovations (at least I've never seen them before): If you mouseover a shirt on the Men's Rugby page the tool-tip has en embedded video element wherein a model walks into the tip wearing the item in question and shows both the front and back of the garment. I had no technical problems with this so it was useful for me as a shopper. There is a blurb called "How to Wear" for each item which gives the User 2-3 tips on how to incorporate the item into their wardrobe or to coordinate with other items fabrics in the catalog. I see this as akin to a context sensitive help for the item in question. They've also incorporated a blog into the website--which isn't too common from what I've seen for online retail clothing sales (although Ralph Lauren's other websites do the same and so of course does Amazon.) There are some navigation design problems for sure. For instance, I can't figure out how to get back from an item view to a category view without using my browser's back button--which is a big problem, and I agree that nav elements (the little pointer hands) in the magazine navigation are too subtle. S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32143 ________________________________________________________________ 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
