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An artistic global gateway

By On May 10, 2011 · 1 Comment

How’s this for a visibly engaging global gateway:

It’s the landing page for Protest Boardwear — a Netherlands-based clothing outfit.

Unfortunately, the map itself isn’t clickable, which violates a cardinal rule of global gateways. If you display a map on your web site, expect people to click on it. [...]

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Dear Airbnb: Please take down your mutant flag

By On April 6, 2011 · 2 Comments

Airbnb is one of the hot new travel web service startups.

It basically lets you rent out your spare bedroom or look for a spare bedroom when you travel. That’s how it started out; now it is expanding to include luxury home rentals.

It is also expanding around the world, which has [...]

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Microsoft launches a new global gateway

By On March 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’m happy to see Microsoft launch a new global gateway on its home page.

Here’s a detailed view:

Notice how the country/region options are all nicely presented in the native languages. You might wonder about how the list was sorted, with both Latin and non-Latin scripts involved. I write about this in [...]

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Starbucks modifies its global gateway, but problems remain

By On March 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I noticed recently that Starbucks had launched a new web design, probably to coincide with its newly austere logo. Unfortunately, the new global gateway didn’t improve on the old global gateway.

Here’s the old gateway:

And here’s the latest version:

 

The positioning of the gateway is ideal, but the text links themselves [...]

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