Victor Lombardi of Smart Experience and I begin DAKISSA, a podcast that looks at innovations in interface design. In the first episode we look back at the way Kayak.com provided rich filtering controls and results visualization. I first saw Kayak's search interface in 2005. The interface has not changed much from when it was introduced, and still remains an excellent example of the type of AJAX interaction that is so valuable to the customer's experience that you cannot imagine the site without it.
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06/17/08 @ 15:29
[...] New videoblog about user interface by good men Michael and Victor. Check it out! [...]
06/18/08 @ 19:21
I love Kayak for the AJAX interactions and ability to filter in real-time. Old news but a good site.
They totally misunderstood the graphs presented in Kayak. The graph doesn't show different travel dates, it shows historical prices for the dates requested.
06/18/08 @ 21:59
Thanks, Dave, for pointing that out. That was a feature I had never used so I was looking at it for the first time while Victor pointed it out to me. I can see the value of seeing the fare history in the past.
I don't see any reason why the fares can't be depicted in this way to see where prices change in the future as well, if that information is available.
08/04/08 @ 17:08
wow,
im sold on kayak. this can really help people visiting your site to stay longer and interact more.
09/17/08 @ 15:18
anyone know what technologies (other than AJAX) is used to create this interface?
10/04/08 @ 22:11
Kayak is great. I feel like I still have more to learn, but this was one more example as to why I want to learn more. Thanks for sharing!!
All the best.
11/15/08 @ 17:44
The interface is great and useful! It's the best I've seen in any website to book low cost flights online! Programming this must've been a very complex task!
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