Make Your Users Feel Awesome by Looking Good

The last month for me has been heaven and hell. I have seen my mum and dad, seen a couple of friends from home, visited a geek fest in Austin, raced in San Diego, seen all my eBay friends and even been whale watching in Big Sur having driven the highway 1 down from Santa Cruz. On the other hand my workload has been high (by my standards), I have been on at least 7 flights in 3wks - 4 of them long haul and am entering a huge, high stress period of uncertainty at work. All of this has led me to

a. start bleeding from the nose and getting headaches ;)

b. think about what experiences make me feel awesome

For me it's really clear that the experiences that make me feel awesome are those that either make me look good or do something that really pleases me and makes me feel good. For this post I am gonna focus on the looking good!

Google maps is the example I want to use for looking good. Just a few weeks ago I installed it on my blackberry, I use it rarely due to the high bandwidth costs but on two occassions it has been awesome! The most recent occassion was while at a regatta and searching for a particular mexican restaurant in San Diego called the californian coyote. We knew the name but had no idea where it was and neither did anyone close by. Under a minute later using a combination of searching Google and using Google maps I had the address and a route there. When at the restaurant everyone celebrated the fact I got them there and I felt awesome.

Google maps made me feel awesome by looking good and I am gonna keep using them because of that! Now how can I take that learning to my websites and quickly!!!

Comments

[David A]

Hi: Thanks for helping us find the restaurant! Google Maps certainly saved our supper....