500px provides friendly, clear, translations of their Terms. You know, that stuff no one ever reads. (hat-tip to Mark Sherrill.)
Clever Details
A design and user perspective of daily online interactions.
So nice. Quora shows my user photo (before I even enter a password) as a nice confirmation that I’m logging into the right account.
Thank you, Zappos, for all of the easy-to-add, easy-to-remove filters on your categories and search results. Nice roomy buttons too! Also great that you automatically show 100 items per page. I’m forever hitting “view more” or “view all” on site that only show 10-15 items. (See previous post with Smartwool’s site.)
There are a lot of things to be said about New Twitter, but I have to bring up the photo integration. So nice to be able to open photos and media directly in the feed!
Wanderfly is doing so many interesting things here! (Travel suggestions.) Huge photo immediately immerses you in the suggested destination. Thumbnails across the top allow you to toggle between places, while photos at the bottom-right show additional views of the same location. Description is thorough, but not overly long, and legible. Estimated price in the bottom-left uses cash-register style numbers for an obvious reference. They even remind me of my search in the top-left. Very complete!
Nice at-a-glance report on Mailchimp mobile. Pretty much everything you need to know about your last email blast.
More lovely icons from Mailchimp.
Klout - why are your email graphics and type so tiny? They could be great, but I can’t see them, and I don’t care to click through. A missed opportunity.
Love the appeal (and depth!) of these icons from Mama’s Sauce Letterpress studio. They run down the sidebar of the Quotes page.
Lytro!
Nice interactive gallery for Lytro! Easily lets customers try out the variable focus tool for themselves. (My socks are knocked off.)
Marimekko, for how much I love the boldness of your brand, this is a pretty boring email.
Smartwool
Smartwool’s playful side-scrolling homepage fits their brand ID perfectly. On the shopping page, the clothing icons are sharp and cheerful. Downside is that they really need a “View All” button on the browse. 22 pages is a little much to click through.
MoMA’s design store solves the “View all” problem with irregular-sized tiles pretty well. Writeup of that another day.
Fashism’s nicely organized feature area. Plus “Love It” “Hate It” buttons with modern angular arrows.
Eye-catching but non-invasive holiday banner on Etsy. (Nicely coordinates blue color-scheme into the fun graphics, keeping a constant background color.)
Lovely and straightforward signup presentation: allows me to choose between using facebook/twitter or email.
