A straw poll, generally speaking, is a vote with non mandatory results. In this case, it’s the name of an online app that lets you create tiny daily polls in 140 characters or less, using your own Twitter account. The nice thing about this app it’s that you can vote but also add your motivation: [...]
It’s beautiful when background images help you to make out the meaning of websites you’re visiting, creating a nice visual experience but also providing you an information. In this case the many coloured threads woven in a tidy rope perfectly highlight the mission of FeedStitch, an online application that lets you pull data feeds from [...]
Your Flowing Data is a great online app that lets you record personal data using Twitter’s direct messagge. The project scope is simple: if you start collecting and registering tiny facts of your life every day, later you will be able to analyze the choices and behaviours your data will reveal. There are different kinds [...]
Connect-A-Sketch is a design tool that lets you create clickable prototypes from your wireframes and sketches. Its website displays a compact, streamlined, inspirational sign-in form: all the fields are incorporated in a gray arrow element laying on a textile pattern background. The log-in button, arrow-shaped too, stands out in the whole composition and enhances the feel of dynamism inherent [...]
Thumbtack is an online marketplace for local services, a free way to find new clients and manage the ones you already have. Just post your service once, and we’ll take care of the rest. Your service page will go live on Thumbtack instantly. I love the double-decker search form that allows one to switch from the [...]
Since I’m blogging, my Twitter’s contacts are growing in a freakish way. In a while, using Peepnote, an online application developed to keep your peeps (which is this app’s lingo for Twitter’s following) organized, will be more necessary than useful. I love the interface’s vibrant colors and the warm appeal of the whole design, but what [...]
To be true, we should rename this category “menu & navigation systems“, so don’t worry if you find this post slightly off-topic. For now, I just want to show you this clever navigation system implemented by OnTheRoad. OnTheRoad is essentially an online travel journal that lets you to keep trace of your trips uploading, via [...]
Zcope is an online tool for tasks and projects management. The navigation menu is a variation on the classic “buttons menu”; in this case an arrow connects the selected item to the contents and leads user’s look downward.
Intervals is an online tool for project management and time tracking. The price of the product is a quite simple table, but with a very useful mouse over that highlights both rows and columns and thus greatly facilitates the reading of data.
The button to activate Babel With Me (a beautiful and useful chat service that allows simultaneous translation in 45 different languages) is huge and clearly stands out.
Color Hunter is a very useful application that lets you search palette and colors from an image or a hexadecimal code. Useful in the initial stage of product concept. After defining your palette, you can use Checkmycolours to analyze the color contrast of your web page according to W3C specification.
