This project was a pretty nice attempt at usable interface design. It’s a search engine for used cars, which was quite advanced at the time, and now, looking at it, it’s still pretty cool. The goal was to design a usable three-step, one-page flash interface for the search engine. At that time, most of the similar search engines featured HTML-form based interfaces, which reloaded the page at every step.
Since this was one of my first exercises in interface design, it’s nice to see that I already saw a faint glimmer of the “using data to modify data” principle. For example, the range slider, used to select year, engine power, mileage and price ranges, also serves as a bar graph, showing the number of vehicles available for each step.
It also has nifty DHTML tricks, all courtesy of Fry. The one I like most is the comparison windows that arrange themselves horizontally and scroll together to keep the vehicle characteristics inline.
If you ask me, this is the site where the attention to detail and the dedication of each member of Parsek’s team is most apparent. (Some improvements as well as some bugs have been introduced into the interface since I left)
URL:
Producer:
Parsek
Client:
Revoz (Renault Slovenija)
Execution:
DHTML based layout, featuring a Flash 5 search engine interface. The backend is ASP powered, the content is managed through a CMS client installed at every Renault-licensed used car reseller.
Status:
Online
Involvement:
- Search engine interface design /w Ozi
- Flash programming
Tags: Flash, Flash 5, Parsek, Renault Slovenia, Revoz, website