The Rails Brothers

In my last post I already mentioned it, we had a relaunch at pkw.de. I just wanna give this event its own post. Everybody worked very hard to get this online in a very tense timeframe. But everything went just great (as everybody can see) and here we are with a new face.

But we did not only change some colors and our layout but did some major redesign with the search interaction. Our project management is confident the new interface will be more usable because we adopt now to best practices. Being a convinced Student of Media Informatics and due to this of the Art of HCI and Interaction Design I challenge this opinion. I'm a little sad we disagreed to walk on the street of innovation but I understand the motivation from a non-technical point of view.

And even when we now just adopted some so called best practices we will of course not stop to work hard on building the best car search platform you find in Germany. And this relaunch was some important landmark on our way achieving this goal.

Enjoy it! Railsbros Dirk

Today we had a relaunch at pkw.de and due to this we celebrated a little bit. After all but Ethem and me were gone we decided our office needed some major re-factoring itself. So we rearranged our table sticked a oversized Rails poster at the wall and ... Ah, stop the talking, you say? We wanna see some pictures, you say? You are right! Here we go over at Ethem's Flickr account. Or just this picture of me sitting on the couch and drinking beer.

What will the colleagues say ... ;-)

Stay tuned!