A bit off the topic, but interesting non the less... The wall street journal experimented with an interesting customization model a few years ago. But instead of styling, they actually allowed you to collect topical departments and other site elements, arranging and ordering them the way you want. The system was dropped within a year or so. My guess would be that it was not utilized and that their readers trusted the wsj selection of stories.
The really interesting component of their system would have been to capture the user preferences and consider their implications for future content organization. Mark On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Jeff Noyes <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in the midst of designing a tool that allows users to style a website > via the interface. Most sites that do this allow you to pick a canned > theme, > apply a few colors, fonts, etc, and maybe even have an advanced view where > you can edit the CSS directly. Couple questions on this... > > 1. Can you point me to some good examples? > > 2. As designers, if you've used a tool like this in the past and felt > something was good or bad about the tool, what was it? > > Thanks > Jeff > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
