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Mar192007
Subtle Change, Measurable Impact
Jason Kottke knows where it’s at. For a few weeks now his stuff has made it onto my bookmarks toolbar. As I’ve grown a more appreciative reader I’ve begun to notice little bullets next to a few posts in his RSS feed. My eyes gravitate to these items and I now won’t dare miss reading any of the “bullet” items Kottke points out.
In Safari’s RSS reader, it’s not so noticeable:
But, in the Firefox bookmarks toolbar it has a much stronger effect:
It is a very simple change to his RSS feed, but when used sparingly this has immense impact. These details make his design that much more complete and thoughtful.
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Posted at 7:29 am on 03/21/07
Jay
That may be useful, but the whole point of an rss feed is that it’s not ‘designed’. It’s up to you or the feed reader or whatever to determine how it looks. That is definitely not semantic. The xml feed is basically raw data, so what if i wanted to sort stuff alphabetically in my own reader? How would that sort, by bullet?