"We compare so you don't have too" should be "We compare so you don't have to"
Show HN: A site using zero images – any feedback on the UI?
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#22p.s. 205/45 17 is a good test tyre size
Being one of those that have no clue about tyres' sizes, I found the 205/45 17 combination after a few tries. It would be nice if the "tyres size choosing page" would retain your choices, after you get a "Size not found, please try again" or a "Please select Width, Profile and Size".
In the results page you may want to hide the table header's sorting buttons from the "Purchase column" and call the "back" button something like "New search" (this last point is quite debatable of course).
About the UI, it looks good overall (caveat: I have a bias toward non-distracting UIs). I don't really see the need for images.
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#23It would be pretty neat if you could figure out ahead of time which combinations were possible, disabling buttons for impossible combinations and reserving the "Size not found, please try again" message for weird exceptions where your index is out of date.
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#24Instead of letting me search for things that don't exist, use JavaScript to update the UI when I select from the top rows.
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#25If I select Width then Profile at that point you can calculate (ajax callback for example) which sizes are available for that combination and grey out the ones I cant pick. At that point you could get rid of Find Best Price for Tyres completely (as the system would know there are results at that point and display them for me) (or keep it just in case). EDIT: You could also grey out the Find Best Price for Tyres until…
What I found refreshing about the site was that it did not make me wait while it determined what to do next. As a user, once I have gone to the trouble of looking up my tyre size and entering two of the three parameters, having the site go non-interactive while options are filtered is not helpful, it is annoyingly bad design. It is bad because instead of being done with my task in another second or two, I am given th…
With the amount of possibilities this has, all the options could be included in the page load, making the filtering (almost) instantaneous.
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#26Good job. Haven't we been doing this for a few years with CSS3? I have anyway.
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#27What this then? http://www.tyresum.co.uk/images/graph.png
:)
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#281.) UI is confusing. Not immediately clear what's a button. 2.) Not UI feedback, but the data seems pretty sparse. Getting not found on relatively common sizes. 3.) I'd wager the average person has no idea about width, profile and size. You really need a way to search by make/model/year for something like this or at least a quick guide on how to read the sidewall to get the information. 4.) I'd be more interested in…
re: 1.)
Among other things, a good practice for indicating something is clickable is to set the cursor: pointer css property.
Also, it'd be nice if the text were centered vertically. Since your "li"s are all a fixed height you can do this easily without relying on table hacks or css3 by simply setting the padding-top to 20px and adjusting height accordingly. (Box-align will eventually support this, but you still can't count on people having compatible browsers so for a simple layout like this one padding should do just fine).
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#29"We compare so you don't have too" should be "We compare so you don't have to"
I'm not a spelling/grammar nazi or anything, but seeing mistakes like this really puts me off things. Like, to the point where I have to close the tab because it annoys me so much.
I probably have a disorder. I should get help.
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#30Off Topic: The word is "grateful" (although greatful is a common misspelling). I was just thinking about this because I've been listening to a lot of Grateful Dead and I was wondering which was the correct spelling. Turns out they spelled it right.