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Design Case Study: Amazon Drop-Down

cct — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:11:22 +0000

Good job Amazon for this new design roll-out that highlights their key free offerings and their deals. Definitely

considers the user
leverages interest in free content
shows Amazon’s positive offerings.

Additionally, it’s also not at all intrusive – disappearing the moment someone starts typing.

-cct

Tumblr Rumblr

cct — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:59:04 +0000

I really love how my tumblr looks right now.

That is all.

-cct

Infographic: The Truth About Design Opinions

cct — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:16:35 +0000

Just posted on my Tumblr, this is the reality about design. Based on a conversation with my co-worker Tiina who made it happen visually (can you tell which one of us is the designer?)

Shifts in Facebook: Commenting on Wall Posts

cct — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:51:09 +0000

Facebook Shifting Borders?

The other day my friend Ian and I were having a facebook wall conversation and it wasn’t until he commented on my message on his wall that I realized you could comment on that as well (hey…there’s some things I don’t pay attention to ).

As my friend Bobby just did the same thing earlier (commenting on my wall post), I write this post being all kinds of divided. Is this the end of the wall-to-wall? It makes sense because then the conversation follows on your profile where it began and you can see the exchange of things. But then, I feel that you miss that element of two people on different profiles talking to each other.

Twitter-like?

Is this another Twitter-like integration by facebook as well? Essentially adding in comments to people’s wall posts allows for other people to make their own comments if they knew the person. I’ve done this on twitter every once in awhile, but though I’ll occasionally throw in a “I don’t know you, but that’s awesome!” comment in a string related to a facebook status, I haven’t really felt the need to do it in facebook. Or perhaps it’s because I’ve never had the option?

Facebook with Twitterish Features

I’ve not been too big a fan of Facebook’s obvious changes to deflect the Twitter craze, but obviously (sans the Facebook Governance), they are a business and they need to figure out how to combat the competition. But as individual tools, I see Facebook and Twitter as not different players in the same game (“Social Media”), but rather different dialects of the same language. Some of its changes, it’s as if Facebook is trying to forcibly integrate another dialect into its own…and well – it’s awkward. Twitter’s recent changes to interface are more about how to improve itself for its users and I think that’s how it really should be.

Commenting on wall posts, however, I think is just another facebook habit this user has to acquire.

Efficient: Facebook – Events and Lightboxes

cct — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:13:46 +0000

I kind of hesitated writing “efficient” and “facebook” next to each other, but there are a few changes to facebook I have liked (and I’m kind tired of being a ‘negative nancy’ – where does that phrase come from? all the nancy’s i know aren’t negative – ’cause I’m generally pretty chipper). The thing that striked me recently that I liked was when I created an event listing.

Well…

When I finished creating an event. The process of creating the event itself is quite annoying. As I do work for an event-related website, I’m a big fan of “add event/create your event” buttons and links. But wait this was supposed to be positive…

Okay. So once you get through the process of adding an event, when you look at the guest list of attending, maybe attending, etc., it now appears in a light box.

Facebook - Event Guest List Light Box

If you’re an admin, you can easily click “Make Admin” button beside the person and authorize that they become an admin. So simple and concise.

-cct