Redesigning the United flight search interface in Photoshop
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Redesigning the United flight search interface in Photoshop
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Re: Redesigning the United flight search interface in Photoshop
#2Just off the bat, it looks a lot easier to read and understand. The current design might be done to support older browsers but I think most of the users should not be punished for the few who still use older browsers.
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#3Really well done. What's now painfully obvious to me that I hadn't realized before seeing your design is how much easier cognitively it is to place the destinations horizontally. Makes a ton of sense and you rarely see that.
Re: Redesigning the United flight search interface in Photoshop
#4Just off the bat, it looks a lot easier to read and understand. The current design might be done to support older browsers but I think most of the users should not be punished for the few who still use older browsers.
For what it's worth, I don't think there's any intentional support for older browsers with their current design, so much as a failure to care about any newer design.
United's current website is Continental's website pre-merger. It's the same design they've used for nearly eight years and it's really showing.
United's pre-merger site wasn't anything really spectacular, but it was still better than what they're putting up there now.
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#5Just off the bat, it looks a lot easier to read and understand. The current design might be done to support older browsers but I think most of the users should not be punished for the few who still use older browsers.
we are talking purely about visual presentation, which means that 'older browser' support isn't really an issue. everything could have been done with images (as bad of an idea as that is) and support IE 5, if you wanted to.
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#6Remember when the American Airlines employee got fired for giving feedback to an unsolicited re-design? Also, here are some other examples of airline website re-designs [2].
I can't find it now, but the AA designer's response discussed the challenges of re-designing these sites, would be appropriate to relate that here.
[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091106/0337536829.shtml
[2] https://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2010/08/02/please-let-me-red...
Re: Redesigning the United flight search interface in Photoshop
#7Just off the bat, it looks a lot easier to read and understand. The current design might be done to support older browsers but I think most of the users should not be punished for the few who still use older browsers.
For what it's worth, I don't think there's any intentional support for older browsers with their current design, so much as a failure to care about any newer design. United's current website is Continental's website pre-merger. It's the same design they've used for nearly eight years and it's really showing. http://imgur.com/a/RZtRH United's pre-merger site wasn't anything really spectacular, but it was still better…
Do you have your font settings changed? My mm/dd/yyyy fit's within the frame.
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#8I think the redesign could benefit from better organization and more contrast. I felt like "search by" was unnecessarily cramped in a corner, the input fields weren't standing out, and the options at the bottom could be better visually organized.
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#9You must understand why this is not possible to do. D.O.T. rules apply to any agency that collects money for air travel. Everything on that page is subject to rules that change continuously and you can get fined massive amounts if you guess wrong. My employer's lawyers are incredibly paranoid about any UI change as we in the past had to pay a huge penalty because a few words were incorrect. So we wind up being stuck with all sorts of idiotic messaging and other crappola.
Now anyone who does not collect money is exempt, like Google Flights or Hipmunk, and they can design anything they want. But an airline or OTA that collects the money has to deal with the DOT and its insane rules and the paranoid lawyers.
I like the design though, very nice.
Re: Redesigning the United flight search interface in Photoshop
#10Remember when the American Airlines employee got fired for giving feedback to an unsolicited re-design? Also, here are some other examples of airline website re-designs [2]. I can't find it now, but the AA designer's response discussed the challenges of re-designing these sites, would be appropriate to relate that here. [1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091106/0337536829.shtml [2] https://www.uie.com/brainsparks…
After reading through, the author of the redesign was Dustin Curtis, creator of Svbtle.