Divvyshot, can you guys give a shout out to your designer? Love your site's design and curious if the designer is available for more clients :)
EDIT: I see it was designed in-house by Sam. Darn. Excellent team
EDIT: I see it was designed in-house by Sam. Darn. Excellent team
Very talented guy. There are a couple CSS hacks in there that don't exist anywhere else on the 'net. Try to find them!
Some UI issues:
- The front page acts weird if you have it any less than full width. Things get pushed around in a weird way, including getting pushed off the page. But this is really just a nit-pick, because the important things stay on the page.
- The Flickr import is slick, but needs a progress indicator after you click the Set to import.
- The buttons at the top really should have some text underneath them. By themselves, I had to hover over each to figure out what they mean. I'm sure I'll get used to it after a while, but it's confusing up front.
- Twitter's disabling basic auth in June. Better get switched to OAuth soon ;)
Nothing major and a damn good 1.0. Great job!
A few usability comments:
- I kept trying to click the buttons embedded into the help tips, but they're roll-over only.
- The ui doesn't respond instantly - probably because it's loading additional content. While we've been trained to deal with this on normal HTML links, the site looks enough like an application that it seems like things are broken. Please add some sort of progress indicator.
- Progress indicator while uploading, too. I tried uploading a directory and nothing happened. Then I tried another dir, and nothing happened. Eventually, the second directory started showing up.
- When I rotated my small image, the UI got messed up - the text field for the name of the image started overlapping the image itself.
Keep up the good work.
Yes. This bugged me. They looked like such beautiful buttons. I was kind of disappointed when clicking them had no effect.
While we have no plans in the near term to require OAuth, new applications should consider it best practice to develop for OAuth. [...] There are still a number of archetectural use cases to work through before we consider the deprication of Basic Auth. Before any changes begin to happen, we will discuss them with the community through the support channels, and give at least 6 months lead time before making any policy changes.
This is the most awesome shopping cart I've ever seen online!
i'd stay far away from having users drag and drop goods into a shopping cart.
A drag drop shopping cart is far more interesting than a cart webpage, more intuitive, quickly manageable.
You'll notice sometimes when clicking a link that you'll see the dotted outline text extend all the way to the left side of the page. That's because the text inside of that element is actually way far off 9999em's to the left of your display. Like a bad act getting pulled off-stage by the big long hook around the neck.
Generally, there is too much hovering required. Reminds me old quests, where you had to hover over everything to see if some element accepts actions.
Instead of going with a plain old Google Maps widget, the designer made a 3D map of their area in San Francisco. I mean, just look at the attention to detail on that map alone. Street names are naturally absolutely positioned, the drop pin has rollover and active images, and clicking on it will take the user to a full map. Astounding job.
Another cool thing I noticed: Move your mouse near the "Sign up now, it's free." link. It start's pulsing. Move your mouse on top of it, and it pulses more strongly. Very nice.