Friday, October 31, 2008

New BART Website



Click here to visit the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Website

I ride it everyday, so I keep in touch with their interactive presence. Also, being a design firm, we appreciate their new look and feel.

I like the new design, UI and functionality. The brown is a great addition to the brand color palette. The angled edges are an unexpected but smooth twist to the Web 2.0 rounded corners that everyone loves. The photos have a candid and real feeling to them too. They rotate every day or so.

The local culture or event feature is a good motivator. The BartTV is well produced and organized. They have a nice newsletter called myBART, that I imagine will become a full social networking where they can provide data based on your frequent searches and other activity. RSS feeds, email alerts, widgets...all of the Web 2.0 staples.

Great job BART!

I found another blog review of this site here.
...and another here.
....eccolo qua.

The iPhone app is top notch too. The design is not that great, but the functionality and the usability is great.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Solana Crawford at SNAP Summit 3

User Action! Leading Users to Action Through Design

Solana Crawford, Founder and Chief Design Officer at DESIGN about TOWN, presented yesterday at SNAP Summit 3. Let us know what you think! The presentation can be found on slideshare as well.



Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Solana Speaking to the SNAP Summit3 Conference

User action: the click moment - iPhone photo by Sean Crawford


Monday, October 27, 2008

See you at Snap Summit3!





SNAP Summit 3 takes place on October 28th, 2008 at the Parc55 Hotel.

Solana Crawford will be speaking at this conference about usability and user action....the click moment!

SNAP Summit 3 is San Francisco's leading conference on user experience and engagement.

Register for SNAP Summit 3 in order to:
* Meet key players and executives from top social sites and applications.
* Learn why leading social sites attract and retain more users.
* Discover new ways to make your site more viral, social, and addictive.