New look Zingzing

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Zingzing Users,

You may of noticed, Zingzing has received a face lift. I hope the new interface will be quicker, more intuitive to use and less intrusive. Gone away is the detailed view and in it’s place is a vertical (newspaper style) view that should tickle a lot of people that are used to viewing their listings in that format. I have put the genre filters behind a new “advanced” tab as these weren’t getting used a huge amount to clear up some room in the interface and allow the site to work on netbook screens, no problem.

Did I mention you can use the site on an iPad now?? Oops

But..

Now I know how Facebook felt when they updated their site a while back!! You either love it or you hate it. The same holds true for the new look Zingzing. I had my reservations at first about the change (and it’s my site!!) but after staring at old and new side by site, and A LOT of testing, and a lot of feedback, a few designers later.. I think the change was the right thing to do.

I tried to keep the colours in as much as I could and will probably try to worm them back in a bit more as the design evolves..but text on coloured backgrounds caused problems for some visitors and was probably a design mistake that became de facto for many other users.

Hope you like the changes and let me know what you think (good and bad) so I can make it even better!!

Marco from Zingzing

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Genre Dropdown Added to Search Toolbar

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

You can now choose from any of the available genres when searching for programmes on zingzing by using the “More..” dropdown. It seems like such an obvious thing to be able to do but dead tricky to implement! I have categorized (by hand) the top 500 programmes but there are still many many more to go so please be patient while they are being added to the database.

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New Design Live!

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The new design zingzing is now live. Hope you guys like it.

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New Design Coming Soon..

Monday, September 29th, 2008

OK, I’ve taken onboard a lot of of the feedback I’ve been receiving about the site design. On the whole, most of it is positive but there are some areas where it could be tightened up.

1. Getting rid of the round corners on the EPG. Bringing the interface flush to the edge of the page. This will help on smaller monitors as well as getting the whole thing looking a bit more slick, less bubbly.

2. Adding content back to the bottom of the page. Haven’t quite nailed down what I want to see here but things like top shows and blog entries would be great. I am really keen to see blogging used throughout the site.

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