Tech-Ed plans
Looks like I'll be at Tech-Ed in San Diego with Mitch Walker, working at the Terrarium labs. I'll bring along some screen shots and if I have early bits by then, I'll have my laptop with me, so if you do attend, please do drop by the Terrarium lab and look for me.
We've got some of our storyboards in click-through format, and I think we are on track to get some usability studies going by end of month. I'm trying to figure out if I can post the click throughs, if I can then maybe I'll start seeing a lot more feedback :)
One concept that we've been playing with that's got me excited is categorized views of search that's generated on the fly. http://www.vivisimo.com is an example of this, my search for “button” didnt exactly get me what I wanted but with proper scoping, safewords and good metadata to run the search over, maybe it's one step (hopefully a large step!) closer to getting a user to what they are searching for in short order.
