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Ping.fm gets a redesign courtesy of yours truly (that's me)

06.13.2008     Comments     Related     Additional Photos
I was honored to work with Sean (@seamoss) on the redesign of his totally awesome startup at ping.fm (@pingfm). It was an honor to even be considered for the task.

I've talked about ping.fm a few times already on my site; I'm totally sold on the service (yes, I would pay monthly for it). If you are active in several different social networking sites and you update them all manually, I think ping.fm will save you a lot of time. Ping.fm showed the foresight to give you a way to add custom "Triggers" so you can send different updates to different sites. Brilliant.

Sean gave me creative freedom but to keep it simple most of the core structure was left in place. For instance the dashboard, the structure (services along the side, area where you post) was left in the same place. From a user standpoint I hate going to a site to find that the "redesign" includes a complete change in the way I navigate and use the site. I scaled the site a bit, added a little dimension and overall freshened it up.

Ok enough chatter, go check it out! and check out the ping.fm blog entry concerning the redesign.

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Comments    Comment Feed

zac 06.13.2008 #
awesome job! you rock those clean and snappy designs.
sadekhm 06.13.2008 #
It's Really awesome .. very nice job
jyoseph 06.13.2008 #
Thanks guys, much appreciated!
Matt Burris 06.13.2008 #
Normally I'm apprehensive about a service I'm enjoying being redesigned, more often than not it gets worse, not better. However, you really know your craft, you did a good job with Ping.fm. It looks and works better.



Oh, and I love this site, very unique and awesome. As a fellow web designer, it's nice to appreciate a superb design.
jyoseph 06.13.2008 #
Matt, Thank you very much. Coming from a fellow designer that means a lot. Thanks for taking the time to drop a line!
phil campbell 06.13.2008 #
Yeah man, you made a nice job of it.
jyoseph 06.13.2008 #
Thank you Phil, much appreciated!

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