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I found most of these sites to be pretty low on content...

ambulatorybird 17y ago
Yeah, it's easy for the design to be minimal when the site doesn't do much.
richcollins 17y ago
Yes, they are confusing the two. We have a minimal shopping site (http://stylous.com/ http://stylous.com/) that is not minimal on content. My co-founder, Steve Dekorte, is the primary designer. His blog uses a minimal design without being minimal on content (http://dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi http://dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi) as does his programming language (http://www.iolanguage.com/ http://www.iolanguage.com/).
- potatolicious 17y ago
  Just wanted to comment on how elegant your site is - it's almost a work of art I think. That being said, does being simple and elegant sacrifice the ability to cross-sell other products simultaneously?
  - richcollins 17y ago
    Cross selling isn't the primary source of distraction / clutter on most shopping sites. I think we could easily add it to the inspector panel that comes up when you click on an item. Thanks for the nice comment!
- Keyframe 17y ago
  Really nice. I've sent a link to my girlfriend to see what she thinks as a "user" :) Comment was that she can't send a link to a ring (gasp) to me, until I've explained she can when she clicks on the product and that font is a bit on the ugly/unreadable side (firefox). thought you might wan't a feedback. Keep up the good work.
  - richcollins 17y ago
    Thanks for the feedback! The dilemma with links to individual pages is that we allow arbitrary scrolling, and we don't want to create a history entry for each item as you scroll (would break back button). A possible solution would be to have scrolling snap to pages. Re: Font, What version of Firefox is she using?
    - Keyframe 17y ago
      ok - she got used to linking stuff once she figured out she can link to a product and it will scroll to it (probably because it looks different than regular web stuff), since I got spammed with "look at this! look at this too! this is so nice, look at it..." :) firefox is 3.5. One major hurdle though, which you should definitely work on is to point out who are you buying from and where do they ship to - we live in europe for example, so we couldn't figure out how to buy stuff, which is - according to her - fabulous and cheap!
      - richcollins 17y ago
        We only aggregate US retailers at the moment :-(
- Jem 17y ago
  I wish more shopping sites were like yours. I just found some neat stuff I like within seconds. Even on Amazon which is fairly usable, there's so much crap to distract your eye it becomes ridiculous.

Yeah, it's easy for the design to be minimal when the site doesn't do much.

Yes, they are confusing the two. We have a minimal shopping site (http://stylous.com/ http://stylous.com/) that is not minimal on content. My co-founder, Steve Dekorte, is the primary designer. His blog uses a minimal design without being minimal on content (http://dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi http://dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi) as does his programming language (http://www.iolanguage.com/ http://www.iolanguage.com/).

potatolicious 17y ago
Just wanted to comment on how elegant your site is - it's almost a work of art I think. That being said, does being simple and elegant sacrifice the ability to cross-sell other products simultaneously?
- richcollins 17y ago
  Cross selling isn't the primary source of distraction / clutter on most shopping sites. I think we could easily add it to the inspector panel that comes up when you click on an item. Thanks for the nice comment!
Keyframe 17y ago
Really nice. I've sent a link to my girlfriend to see what she thinks as a "user" :) Comment was that she can't send a link to a ring (gasp) to me, until I've explained she can when she clicks on the product and that font is a bit on the ugly/unreadable side (firefox). thought you might wan't a feedback. Keep up the good work.
- richcollins 17y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! The dilemma with links to individual pages is that we allow arbitrary scrolling, and we don't want to create a history entry for each item as you scroll (would break back button). A possible solution would be to have scrolling snap to pages. Re: Font, What version of Firefox is she using?
  - Keyframe 17y ago
    ok - she got used to linking stuff once she figured out she can link to a product and it will scroll to it (probably because it looks different than regular web stuff), since I got spammed with "look at this! look at this too! this is so nice, look at it..." :) firefox is 3.5. One major hurdle though, which you should definitely work on is to point out who are you buying from and where do they ship to - we live in europe for example, so we couldn't figure out how to buy stuff, which is - according to her - fabulous and cheap!
    - richcollins 17y ago
      We only aggregate US retailers at the moment :-(
Jem 17y ago
I wish more shopping sites were like yours. I just found some neat stuff I like within seconds. Even on Amazon which is fairly usable, there's so much crap to distract your eye it becomes ridiculous.