I’ve been playing around with bebo a lot the last few days. (You can add me here, if you actually know me.) More specifically I’ve been playing with their developer platform, which as you may or may not know is a clone of Facebook’s.
So aside from having an impressively low number of friends on the site, there are a number of usability issues and quirks I wish they would fix. So here they are:
- Improve your navigation – finding apps, and things to do on the site is harder than it should be. Add a subnavigation menu or something! Or a sidebar.
- Improve the forums for apps
- Improve the documentation for developers, seriously all your revenue growth will come from this.
- Rework your app directory, facebook’s app directory stinks, and yours is already terrible and its been open for a few days.
- decide what your focus is going to be, are you all about the users, the relationships, or what? Once this decision has been made, rework your homepage and personal start page to reflect that.
- merge with virb. just to get their design.
If I had more time I would’ve posted screenshots and more. If Bebo wants me to do some ideas, they can contact me via my bebo page 
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For those of you interested in business cards and other print design, check out my new business cards
on flickr.
Southwest Airlines FINALLY redesigned their site after years and years of it looking the same. The new site sports ajax (or javascript for you purists), clean design, and most importantly it lacks the stodgy 1995-esque design it had been sporting since probably 1995. I have a feeling that this will probably increase their checkouts/conversions by 1-2%. Mind you I'm guessing entirely, but I suspect those who werent comfortable with the airline's ... Continue reading
Its been a while since my last post here, and for that I apologize. Been working on various design projects, and my own webapps i mentioned earlier. With that aside, one of the issues I've been pondering lately has been that of the search engine start page/main page. There are various degrees of this, you have your Google, your ask.com, your yahoo, all with different takes on what the default domain should show.With Seekum, I decided that we needed to reach a ... Continue reading
