[Sigia-l] Visual shopping

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

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> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Ziya Oz
> Sent: 27 February 2007 19:01
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Visual shopping
> 
> Ifan Chou:
> 
> > department-store like visual browsing experience
> 
> In most other visual approaches to shopping (and I posted a 
> few of those examples in the past) the discovery process is, 
> by design, visually interrupted and segmented. You 
> enter/tweak search parameters and there's a redraw process 
> for new results. Quintura takes a somewhat different approach 
> in that the *entire* store/universe is "visible" from the 
> beginning and the user continually zooms in/drills down 
> seemingly without interruption, like Google Maps. 
> 

Jef Raskin would breathe a sigh of contentment, I'm sure.

http://rchi.raskincenter.org/demos/zoomdemo.swf

Jonathan


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