30boxes.com— 30Boxes is online.. Usability experts will feel the difference in its user interface. You only see what you need. I've seen the same in GROU.PS recently. So is this a new, unnamed usability pattern?
Feb 6, 2006View in Crawl 4
The user experience of 30boxes is as good as your mother in menopause. The grey is depressing and the user pages are horribly designed. Usability wise it's quite standard really -- nothing to digg about.
The thin client model is only good if its got amazing reliability or if it's a nonessential service. Calendar software is pretty essential for most people who actually use it, and this site is intermittent right now... I think I'll stick with iCal for the time being.
Yet again, another crap summary. I was thinking this was some new "box" interface or something. So the site is down and I have to gleen what it is from the user comments. It's a damn calendar? So whats the big deal about some calendar thing?No Digg.
I'd hate to be one to say this, too. But i am not really that impressed. The only benefit I can see from this is that you do not have to wait for the calendar to load a new page. But, even that doesn't seem to be such a big thing on this site. Instead of adding pop-up windows that loads a new browser window -- they some javascript that loads a window in the current browser, which prohibts you to continue to look at your calendar. Also, I think a nice feature would have been to add drag drop of calendar events from one date to another. I know this just started, so things will be added, but why start a calendar service that is already implemented (in not so AJAXian) sites. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Sorry, but no digg -- for now.
spacemanspiffFeb 6, 2006
Goodbye Planzo!
jmulderFeb 6, 2006
The user experience of 30boxes is as good as your mother in menopause. The grey is depressing and the user pages are horribly designed. Usability wise it's quite standard really -- nothing to digg about.
finiteFeb 6, 2006
The thin client model is only good if its got amazing reliability or if it's a nonessential service. Calendar software is pretty essential for most people who actually use it, and this site is intermittent right now... I think I'll stick with iCal for the time being.
lookitsdanFeb 6, 2006
yeah nothings showing :(
liquidpenguinFeb 6, 2006
Yet again, another crap summary. I was thinking this was some new "box" interface or something. So the site is down and I have to gleen what it is from the user comments. It's a damn calendar? So whats the big deal about some calendar thing?No Digg.
jtarchieFeb 6, 2006
I'd hate to be one to say this, too. But i am not really that impressed. The only benefit I can see from this is that you do not have to wait for the calendar to load a new page. But, even that doesn't seem to be such a big thing on this site. Instead of adding pop-up windows that loads a new browser window -- they some javascript that loads a window in the current browser, which prohibts you to continue to look at your calendar. Also, I think a nice feature would have been to add drag drop of calendar events from one date to another. I know this just started, so things will be added, but why start a calendar service that is already implemented (in not so AJAXian) sites. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Sorry, but no digg -- for now.
zedomannFeb 27, 2010
Buried for inaccuracy.