"Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers." http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/read-news-fast-with-google-fast-flip.html
I like the addition of recommended and popularity filters, which I hope spread to other Google products. (hint hint Google Reader) For me, Flip isn't useful so far. Its thumbnails of full pages don't convey much information. They're mostly dominated by illegible text; photos, fonts, and layout noise stand out. Google might be onto something here -- scanning thumbnails might be faster than scanning titles and descriptions -- but for this interface to be useful I wonder if content providers need to up the size for headlines and images. What do you think? http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
