Posts Tagged ‘design’
ReadWriteWeb: “design for the Periscope Gadget is simple and effective”
October 19th, 2008 • Mentions
Tags: beta, design, Mentions, Progress
Periscope was referred to by Corvida over at ReadWriteWeb as having a design that “is simple and effective, with hover-over link effects to keep the interface as simple as possible without leaving out important details” — what a succinct way to describe it! Many thanks for the post and nice words about Periscope Gadget. Read the whole post here.
Periscope Help Center powered by Get Satisfaction
August 18th, 2008 • Everything else, Progress
Tags: design, get satisfaction, help, Progress, support
Thanks to the fine people over at Get Satisfaction, I’ve just added their open source Help Center application as the backbone that will power the help center for Periscope. It’s based on their API and brings all of their goodiness into one place on the Periscope Gadget home. So, all you have to do is login to http://help.periscopegadget.com/ and all your questions will (eventually) be answered. I’m hoping to use this to add as many how-tos as possible, to collect ideas for new features for Periscope, to learn about bugs that occur out in the field and to remain in contact with all of you good (now beta) users.
One last small thing: I also changed the width of all pages of all sub-domains so that they all match and give the same sort of look and feel everywhere. Nifty.
New look for the site & blog brings us another step closer…
August 16th, 2008 • Progress
Tags: 37signals, design, Progress, Releases, transparent
This morning I updated the look of both the main site and the blog. I’m going for as much overlap in their look as possible, so I did some CSS magic on the theme that I am using (which is Konstruktors‘ Sans-Serif Racer) which I absolutely love. Thanks Kaspars!
Also, I added global navigation that I think is pretty close to what you’ll see when Periscope goes live. Yes, you’ll be able to login to the site and configure some things like how many Basecamp accounts you have, what their URL’s are, your credentials for each one and more mundane stuff like changing your Periscope password, your personal details and more. I think I’ll do a screencast of this in the future, so watch this space!
Periscope has been in the back of my mind now for the longest time, so I thought I would share an early screenshot (February 2008) of the gadget. You’ll notice that in addition to the two tabs you may have seen in other screenshots and screencasts, there is also a “To-Do” tab. I originally wanted to put EVERYTHING I possibly could into Periscope, but quickly realized that I would never release a product if I tried that (thanks 37signals) — so, don’t be discouraged! To-do’s are something I’m thinking about, and something I will hopefully add in a later release. Just not now! I thought the screenshot was kinda cool to see how the gadget has evolved.
