Yes, TripIt has won yet another award — this time it’s The Industry Standard’s “Innovation 100″ awards, and they took first place in the Productivity category.
Despite the general economic downturn, I feel pretty confident that TripIt is positioned well and flexible enough to bend in the wind without snapping. Especially where business travel is concerned — it may decline, but it’s definitely not going away, and TripIt users are damn near fanatical about the service.
I’ve been working with Glassdoor for a couple of months now, and it’s great to see some of my work (interaction design and UI design) appearing on the site. They are a seriously talented group (I work mostly with Tim A and Tim B, but everyone is really sharp) with a very cool product, already very popular and growing daily.
Here is one area where my contributions are found - mainly the content layout, filter design, conversion messaging and such (I might post a before/after, mainly to help explain how I work with a product that already exists, which is common and tricky):
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Microsoft-Reviews-E1651.htm
You should post a review and a salary, even if you aren’t an active job seeker. (I’m guilty of filtering reviews by scores <2 of 5 and reading reviews from people who hate their job.)
Very cool - Betsy Weber awarded the TripIt screencasts as the “Screen Cast of the Week”. Here is the first of the three we did:
Steph and I worked on these — I worked with TripIt on the concept, scripting and assets, then I recorded the voiceovers, which Steph used while building the screencast in Camtasia.
I think people may be surprised at how much goes into these screencasts, even when using the right tools, so I may post more on the subject in the future. It’s the process and order of steps that I think is key.
