Thoughts about design, code & technology
“…when everything (background, structure, content) is emphasized, nothing is emphasized; the design will often be noisy, cluttered, and informationally flat.
—Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations
Why it’s so hard sometimes getting this through to clients? It’s for their own good, you know?
Just finished watching a video on Woopra, a service/app that intends to provide real time information on the people visiting a website at the moment of the analysis.
It’s really neat watching people logging on the the website, knowing where they’re from, even getting their Gravatars, all in real-time.
The interface aparently needs a bit of polishing, but they provide some nice visualizations, including a world map of where your visitors are coming from.
One drawback I can see saw far is it’s requirement of a client-side app to be installed on the user’s machine. Maybe if it was written in Flex/AIR it could be run both as a desktop and as a web application using the same code base. Since I haven’t downloaded the software yet, I can’t comment that far.
My website is pending approval, and I plan to get back on it when I give Woopra a test run.
