Kristin Currier

Timbukt2's Build Your Own Bag

I love cool new ways to show product online. I can play with this thing for hours, but I gotta work! Timbuk2 clearly has one of the most user-friendly and fun ways to design your own Timbukt2 bag. Go to their website and try it out!

A screenshot of a portion of the Gucci.com handbag page.

Web designers are always supposed to be mindful of viewers’ monitors widths. A lot of us have very large monitors to work on, and it can be too easy to make a website that goes off the screen of another smaller monitor. Nobody wants to scroll horizontally!

The site developers and designers of Gucci.com have decided to go wide anyway with a very usable and sleek design that is like strolling down a 20′ foot line of high-end shelving in a real store, but it works well for any size monitor. Read the rest of this entry →