UX Guys: User Experience Consulting

How do you ensure that your desired audience will find what they’re looking for?

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And the UX Guys blog will be on summer hiatus.

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Today’s site: Estately.com.

If you are looking for a home in Washington State - or just want to see how a real estate website should look and behave - then Estately.com is the place to go.

After entering the site by submitting a city, county or ZIP Code, users are presented with a large area map with all the current available homes and condos for sale located on the map with little iconic push pins. Users can click on a push pin and get a summary view of the listing (a more detailed view is available with another click).

Estately also offers users area/neighbourhood information and an agent matching service.

(UPDATE: Estately.com used to be ShackPrices.com.)

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Today’s site: Remember the Milk.

Still writing your to-do list on a piece of scrap paper, sticky-less sticky note or greasy pizza receipt? How about a website to better help organize that list?

Remember the Milk is your online to-do list, full of the features you would expect and features that make the site worthwhile.

Features you’d expect from an online to-do list include the ability to easily make and manage a daily/weekly list; print and view to-do list in a variety of methods; and, ability to share or collaborate on your to-do list.

Unique features include a mapping mashup with Google Maps (so you can map tasks away from home); accessing your RTM list on mobile or smart phone; and, getting reminders in various formats (although the breadth of formats is cool … Skype, mobile phone, instant messenger, etc.).

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Today’s site: Ajax Rain.

If you’re still developing personal websites, or just want to kick-up your HTML prototypes, Ajax Rain is a good resource for  JavaScrip, DHTML and Ajax widgets.

All the demos can be downloaded for personal use. And if you are an Ajax wunderkind, you can even submit your work.

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Today’s site: Woophy.

Enjoy looking at well-composed, impactful photographs from either amateurs or photojournalists? Woophy is a mashup website that brings together photographers from around th world, mapped them and made an array of photos easily viewable.

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Today’s site: Each Day.

Want a better way of organizing your photographs or short videos? Each Day allows users to share photo memories in a “more meaningful” way.

Through Each Day, a user can easily organize photos/movies by day - either dragging and dropping manually on the day you took the photo or using the date stamp on the image.

One of the features of the site is the Memory Stream - a timeline viewer of all your photographs stored in Each Day.

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Today is Trip Day.

1. Frekfly - Want the low-down on the airports you will be visiting on your trip? Frekfly is a mashup that provides maps, currency info, weather and pictures.

2. Tripology - Website that connects travelers with real, human travel agents. Users can build a trip and request agent assistance on any aspect of that trip (i.e., flights, hotel, car rental, activities).

3. Trippert - Trippert provides user-generated travel articles and photographs.

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Today’s site: Iconfinder.

Need a spiffy Web 2.0 candy icon for your web page, HTML prototype or high-fidelity wireframe?  Through Iconfinder, you can easily locate thousands of handy, well-designed icons in PNG format. Each icon also comes with with a licensing notification (general public license, limited GPL or creative commons).

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Today’s site: CampusExplorer.

Summer has hardly begun but for many this fall’s high school juniors and seniors, the hard work of finding post-secondary schools to apply to has (or should) begun.

Campus Explorer is a website dedicated to helping students, parents and counselors gather information on schools throughout the United States.

Users are given three ways to begin their search: by subject, location and length of schooling (sorry, no “best party school” field box). Results are listed alphabetically, shown on a Google map and include average cost (in-state vs. out-of-state).

The real value of the site is in the details. After selecting a school, users will find a wealth of data on student demographics, expenses, admissions and a list of four-year programs.

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