Comments on: A Spot on myPunchbowl http://tpgblog.com/2008/10/27/a-spot-on-mypunchbowl/ Discussion, advice, and reviews regarding online products, the people behind them and the trends they represent, from Modular Innovation and Product Management to User Experience and Quick-UX. Tue, 29 May 2012 18:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: playoutintelligence http://tpgblog.com/2008/10/27/a-spot-on-mypunchbowl/#comment-891 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:26:33 +0000 http://tpgblog.com/?p=1027#comment-891 A word on Vayama: while the user interface is quite stunning from the looks, it is also slightly defunct: I just tried to book a flight on Saturday to Prague.
1/ When entering three letters from the airports, the first (and only) hit is not selected automatically – I have to navigate with mouse or cursor keys.
2/ The calendar showed the dates up to the 20th crossed out. of course, it’s 9.20pm. I selected Saturday (22nd) with no problem, but when clicked the search tab (a search *tab*?!), an error message popped up that vayama cannot book less than 4 days in advance – so why not cross out these days, too? why letting me input all that data, just to tell me it’s not possible?

Kayak.com also shows me seat availability, so I can choose whether I should really book right now, or can wait a few more hours…

All in all, the little animations and mapping of flight legs is not really the killer, and clicking on a 3D seatmap was not really easy, either. Flashy, yes, but too much information…

“No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.” — Alan Cooper

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