A quick shout out to Jotta (formerly Fifzine), the creative arts portfolio website that has recently relaunched. I like the new design: it’s certainly more navigable, and the lightbox widget seems to work well. Generally though I think Jotta are OK because they’ve featured one of my photographs on the home page!
However… I could do with more ways to browse other profiles – that big ‘advanced search’ box in Explore feels at odds with the idea of browsing freely. This is something we in the University of the Arts London web team thought a lot about when designing Showtime. We modelled the site on FFFound, because we liked the way you can casually browse without having to think of search criteria or narrow your search in advance.
I’d also like to see Jotta plugging in to some APIs – Flickr and Linkedin for example – to lift it above being ‘just another (closed) network’…
hey.
really good to hear your thoughts. we’re working on some of the issues you noted.
maybe we could hook up if you have half an hour to spend? love to speak to you in more depth. email me ben[at]jotta.com
cheers
ben