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By: AntyWeb | Archiwum » Zakupy przez szybę na Amazon

AntyWeb | Archiwum » Zakupy przez szybę na Amazon — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:19:14 +0000

[...] jest bardzo interesującym posunięciem Amazonu i jak zauważa Techcrunch całkiem niegłupim. Jest to niejako odpowiedź na przyjazny interfejs sklepu iTunes, który [...]

By: Amazon’s Windowshop, it’s the thought that counts

Amazon’s Windowshop, it’s the thought that counts — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:54:32 +0000

[...] comes closer to the browsing experience at a book store. TechCrunch, strangely, says it’s a reaction to iTunes. Which I believe, at best, is a mediocre shopping experience that has far more to learn from Amazon [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:45:08 +0000

i think the stores available at http://enjoy3d.com are true 3D stores compare to WindowShop

By: Mari

Mari — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:37:24 +0000

I don’t know if this is powered by Cooliris, but the Cooliris plug-in for window shopping on Amazon is much nicer. Prettier, smoother, less jerky.

By: Window Shock | The Noisy Channel

Window Shock | The Noisy Channel — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:26:08 +0000

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:36:17 +0000

I’ll second that. Zoomii is a far superior user experience. Zoomii gives a great overview of a large book selection with the option of zooming in for greater detail. Windowshop feels claustrophobic in comparison.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:10:34 +0000

Some anecdotes from my user experience:

The top navigation bar that allows you to navigation left to right between different content and dates is yet to be perfect

* Different content is presented in a different color – this is a good cognitive indication, my only concern is that there just too many colors to grasp the difference or even notice it (for example between movies and TV shows).

* There is lack of consistency – some categories are monthly and some weekly. This situation create a bit of confusing, as the order of categories is not consistent, and a bit confusing.

* I would add some sort of borders between update dates, for example an intuitive way to understand that now i switched between October updates to August updates and so on… this will ad another level of structure.

This experience of easy browsing without using the mouse is good, but there is one little annoying bug here… if you give me the chance not to use the mouse why do you make me press on the “I” (help) icon to read the help? pressing the letter “I” should do the trick.

The default way of navigation (zoomed in) in my mind is not the right way, because for someone who didn’t see the feature before, found it difficult to get a good orientation, and it might create a negative first impression for the users.

I think another level of information is missing – short reviews, rating or a reference to information on the site. In my mind i see an option to flip the item picture to see its back side, and in it will appear some additional information on the item.

I find the window shop pretty good compared to many semi-virtual environments I saw in the past. But keep in mind, this can not replace the rest of the shop/site (in this case amazon shop). It is not for no reason that the feature name is “Window shop”, as this can be used effectively almost only to present new items in a sort of a “show case”.

By: Amazon WindowShop Open « Weblibraryjpn’s Weblog

Amazon WindowShop Open « Weblibraryjpn’s Weblog — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:49:44 +0000

[...] Amazon’s WindowShop Offers A Sleek Interface For The Online Megastore(October 27, 2008　TechCrunch)　 Today Amazon has launched a new storefront called WindowShop , which presents some of the store’s newest and most popular movies, books, and video games in a way that makes browsing the online megastore actually fun. Each product is displayed as a tile on a large grid, which users can pan across until they find something they’re interested in. [...]

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:03:19 +0000

Zoomii is Great. Super fast and all in javascript, no Flash required. Zoomii’s speed makes Google Maps feel like it crawls.

By: Amazon’s iTunes Like Interface : Beyond Search

Amazon’s iTunes Like Interface : Beyond Search — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:03:05 +0000

[...] has developed a new interface. You can read the news story on TechCrunch here. The graphical presentation is intended to make it easier and more fun to browse Amazon’s [...]

By: YR

YR — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:53:43 +0000

Amazon was never good at marrying information architecture with UX design beyond the page level and into web clusters or web apps. It’s all way too crowded.

I’ve been waiting for an optional drag and drop flash eCommerce solution from them since… 2001?

By: Digital Tech News - Digital Technology

Digital Tech News - Digital Technology — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:22:41 +0000

WindowShop – Amazon’s Amazing New Online Shopping Experience…

Amazon has created a new way to help customers immerse themselves as they shop for multimedia products like video games, music, and books with WindowShop. The new storfront features Amazon’s most popular products in those categories, which are present…

By: xx

xx — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:21:39 +0000

I was able to browse through for a minute but then I got a fatal warning saying shockwave has performed an illegal operation. Not good.

By: Ivar

Ivar — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:12:36 +0000

This seems to duplicate the functionality already provided by zoomii.com, except maybe not as good.

By: Amazon Window Shop Brings In The LookieLoos : tinyComb

Amazon Window Shop Brings In The LookieLoos : tinyComb — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:28:45 +0000

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By: Web2.0 Chick

Web2.0 Chick — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:37:47 +0000

Lol, I was initially excited when I came across this blog posting… but after reading all the comments here, my enthusiasm to try out Windowshop has somewhat dampened…

By: ep

ep — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:17:49 +0000

I really like the new store. I guess there’s lots of competition now with itunes and the like out there. Go Amazon go!

By: DumbDude

DumbDude — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:20:06 +0000

They copied the Magic Shelf from the Borders site. Given that the Magic Shelf is so successful, Amazon decided to try something similar to see market response

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » AmazonのWindowShopは、オンラインメガストアのおしゃれなインターフェース — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:47:45 +0000

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By: ripoff

ripoff — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:30:57 +0000

Didn’t Cooliris do this before?

By: SuperC142

SuperC142 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:10:15 +0000

“the site should include some kind of navigation (for example, I should be able to look at just books).”

Categories have their own columns and the first page says “Arrow Keys to Navigate”.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:17:29 +0000

Right with you. And, I wish their emails would stop, I don’t need to buy a router everyday.