New Feature: Check-out Divider
You may have seen this feature in an older incarnation, but it's worth pointing out the new version. The idea is simple: put a divider between articles that are new since your last visit and the older articles. EarthLink's blogger, Dave Coustan, said he thinks of this as the divider you use at a grocery check-out counter to separate your fresh halibut steaks from the next customer's frozen fish sticks.
Fig. 1: Check-out Divider
It's easy to use. Simply read (or "check out") your new articles until you see the divider. Those are your "fresh" articles. Everything below the divider was there on your previous visit to Reader.
Fig. 2: Effective Use of the Divider
We tried to keep it visually subtle so that your eyes wouldn't immediately jump to it, but distinctive enough for you to easily recognize once you did reach it.
Comments
*tap tap* sure is quiet in here!
;-)
I just emailed you something along the line of, "Hey, ELReader is actually kinda slick" and huh huh that divider was one of the things that came to mind.
I write as often as I can that for me the heart-essence of "Web2.0" *gack ptui!* is user experience. AJAX and all that fancy Javascript is the plumbing. But a web page with some actual responsiveness?! Goooooooolly!
There's rarely anything simple about it ... making things easy is hard, any designer knows that. But sometimes little touches, humane things ... they just jump up and grin!
good on ya
Posted by: Ben Tremblay | August 2, 2006 1:01 AM