StickyScreen. Absurdly Simple Reminders.

Written on 22nd December 2008                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

StickyScreen is an incredibly simple site which takes the concept of “sticky note” reminders and puts it on the web for you.

The site is simply a url with a dark grey background and elegantly placed sticky note in the center of the screen. On that sticky note is an editable short paragraph of text (3 lines) which is where you place your reminder.

The idea being you use StickyScreen as your homepage (or for whenever you open a new tab) to remind you to do whatever it is you want to remind yourself to do. :)

No login/plugin is required as everything is stored in a browser cookie. Looking for something a little more feature rich, try iGoogle’s Web Sticky Mod.

It might infringe on it’s simplicity but I do like the idea of having a login to enable more functionality. For example, it would be great to have this possibly on the iPhone/Mobile wallpaper/screensaver. I would also love it if someone else edit the sticky to leave reminders for me – now, that would be useful.

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homepage, reminders, sticky

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Home improvement: Flickr redesigns homepage

Written on 11th September 2008                                                                                                              3 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Have you noticed the small attention grabber on the bottom of your Flickr homepage? No? Well, it’s the first sign of Flickr’s upcoming home improvement. The Yahoo-owned photo site wanted to create a new homepage that “surfaces much more of the action going on around you on Flickr”, social technologist Matthew Rothenberg wrote on the corporate blog.

They’ve done that by showing more pictures from your contacts, introducing the latest pics from your groups, and pushing the blog plus your personal stats to the front. But while Flickr has added more content the page, it actually looks cleaner. Once again it’s a fine example of almost perfect and original 2.0 design, like our guest editor Sjors Timmer earlier noted.

For now, users can have a sneak peak via the “Psssssst! Want a sneak peak at your new homepage?” button. With the feedback of the thousands of member photographers, the Flickr designers will then finalize the redesign. There are already 509 replies in the dedicated forum thread, so I guess they won’t be done soon.

If I had to come up with a piece of advice, I’d suggest to remove the side bar, as it’s of no use to me. But I guess that will make Flickr go bankrupt, so never mind.

By the way, even if you’re not interested you should click the button, as you don’t want to miss out on the Flickr balloons and a MIDI version of Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night which appear during the transition. It’s all about user experience folks.

design, flickr, homepage, Matthew Rothenberg, photo sharing, redesign, User, web 2.0, yahoo

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