Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Moving away from lists

Any and every online search displays results in lists. Most often, the lists are long, way too long. So that sets me thinking: we should have a new design artifact that replaces these lists. The artifact or plug-in should avoid endless scrolling and page navigations ('next page').

Google sometime back tried 'Wonderwheel'. I was excited about such a visual artifact, but have not seen it being successfully used. Probably it still lacked in its utility.

Sravanthi Kollukuduru, Kamalakar Karlapalem worked on concept of wheels to avoid scrollable options displayed when clicked on a select box. Aptly titled 'Wheels of Web', this is the beginning to move away from boring long lists.

And towards this challenge: I mine.