Cool Interface!

Posted on January 11th, 2007 in Interface, Just Cool, Shopping, Travel, Websites by Jay

Just been to the qantas.com website to have a look at travel dates for April. Normally I would say ‘i have to travel on the exact date’ however in this case I looked at the ‘flexible with dates’ option.

The interface that was returned presented a matrix of the departure and return dates, with all the prices on one small table. Excellent! So i can look at the prices (all the same in this case) and then pick a combination of departure and return dates with one click.

Well done qantas.com

QANTAS Price Chooser

Instantly Usable

Posted on November 9th, 2006 in Shopping, Tools, Web, Websites by Jay

My news reader this morning notified me of a few articles in relation to like.com.

This is a new search engine specifically designed for finding things that look ‘like’ something. It was instantly useful and intuitive.

This is what I tried… I click on a watch on the front page, it then asked what sort of watch, so I said a men’s watch. From this point on I was able to move some sliders at the top of the page that then updated the search results on the page based on whether I liked the colour, the shape or pattern of the items I had selected.

Once I had narrowed this down I was then able to literally draw a box around the parts of the watch I had found that I liked (I liked the band) and then the search results updated again to show me watches with similar bands. It was a great experience. I never went to the point of buying, but would definetly use this as a research tool. Here’s hoping if will go beyond watches, jewelry, handbags and shoes soon.