Window Shopping

Amazon's Windowshop

Amazon has released Windowshop. Essentially a pseudo 3D wall you can move across and zoom in on a product. When you zoom in you’re presented with video or audio material about the product. Looks like the products presented are recent releases in categories such as Movies, Books, and Music.

Seems like an interesting idea and a way to navigate through products. My first impression was that it was interesting, but not something that help my buy a product. After using it a few times, I realized that the accessibility value here is great. Slide from one product to another and I can almost instantaneously play information about it. Maybe it’s a 30 second preview of a book or album or a full trailer of a movie, all reachable with a few arrows on my keyboard versus the multiple clicks and searching for links on a typical page.

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