Excellent use of color, oversized text, and a well designed map navigator are highlights of the Podbop start page. The interior uses the same high contrast and highly readable layout. The dark brown and lime green work well together with the white font. The site has a great user experience with inline previews of the band’s mp3’s categorized by date and location.
Category Archives: Start Pages
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Podbop Entrance Page
– February 20, 2006 - No comments - Posted in Design Patterns, Search, Start Pages. -
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Netvibes Start Page
– February 18, 2006 - No comments - Posted in Design Patterns, Start Pages. -
At first glance Netvibes looks like many other web 2.0 sites, however, it’s interaction design is superb. Nearly all of Netvibes user interaction is controlled by an AJAX presentation layer. Smart features include inline title editing, a hide and show add content box, and the content boxes control elements located in the header of each box. Also of mention is the smooth performance of the drag and drop function. In my opinion the strength of the Netvibes design is the attention to minimalism and the close attention to user interaction.