Saturday, June 12, 2010

A "real" bookstore


If you love books certainly you like the experience of visiting real bookstores, spending afternoons wandering the shelves. The Zoomii website tries to replicate this experience in the online world.

Actually, the bookshop works as an interface to Amazon.com. Visitors can zoom in and out among several virtual shelves before picking a book. This is a nice example of using real world metaphor in e-commerce websites.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

World cup calendar


Encouraged by my colleague Daniela Brauner, I'm starting a new series on Information Visualization.

The website MARCA.com - the digital version of MARCA, one of the most popular sports newspaper in Spain - published an outstanding world cup calendar!

It offers 4 different but interconnected views: by date, teams, venue and phases of the competition. Each one is displayed in the center of the screen, which looks like a stadium.

Try it at: http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario.html