Bizrate.com collapses their left nav navigators by default. Con: it hides the values you can refine by. Pro: makes all the options visible. In the same screenshot, also notice their treatment for results for my keyword search that were found in other subcategories.
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emusic.com has a nice panel with tools on album pages. Unobtrusive but visible.
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Like.com has a small module underneath their left nav that shows tiny thumbnails of my recently viewed shoes. It also has a link to “view all items in LikeList” that prompts you to log in or register, and then goes to a page that shows all these shoes. This seems to be a pretty appealing way of encouraging users to register.
The left nav right now is rather mysterious. Originally, a little cloud with “new” in it popped up to the right and said “switch to the new ebay.” I can’t find the link anymore in other browsers, so maybe this is an A/B test? Also, the “switch back to the old ebay” link is now gone. Weird.
Old Ebay
New Ebay – much more compact
Refine your search and More Choices pop outs, notice that the Refine your search pop out has multiple tabs while the More Choices pop out does not.
I really enjoyed the mint.com account creation page.
Here’s why:
1. It gave me feedback as I was working through it (filling out each field correctly was “rewarded” with a green OK icon).
2. Unobtrusive marketing text on the right — it didn’t feel overwhelming, but I could have read it if I really cared.
3. Simple and light look and feel.
I saw this slideshow on findability.org. It’s hard to follow without the accompanying talk, but two slides stood out:
Cool concept for all refinements in one interface, but I worry about over-steering to zero results all in one step.
Boo, pic is unreadable. Click to get original. Here’s the message recreated:
We weren’t able to find any results within the criteria you specified, so we expanded the search for you and here is what we found.
And some context:
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