Sunday, March 22, 2009

Threadless' use of context

Threadless makes good use of context by not only identifying where the user is coming from but also giving them an incentive call to action through the use of a specific promocion code.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Phone app with local timezones

A phone application like Skype should have a world clock built into it.
When calling overseas it is probably the most common piece of information you would want.

Currently you see this:


It would be useful to have something like this:



I originally was thinking of putting the local time next to each option in the drop down but then I realised that it was too visually cluttered and also that it did not serve a purpose ie. it doesnt help in the selection of the item (you only want to know the local time of the item you are selecting).

Looking at this now I realise that in this particular case there is one problem: the items in the list are countries and local time varies by city. Perhaps the app could give a range of timezones or at least have a link to get timezone information.