Sunday, May 24, 2009
How To Make Maps The Center Of Your UI (And How Not To)
Google Code Blog: How To Make Maps The Center Of Your UI (And How Not To): "The oldest saw in real estate is that the three most important things about a house are location, location, and location, and at Redfin we took that as our user interface mantra as well. We made a decision early on that we were going to build a dynamic AJAX web app where the Google Map wasn't just a feature of the application but was the main driver of user interaction. The map is how users tell us where they want to search and what houses they are interested in buying, and our users tell us time and again that the map is what keeps them coming back."