Have a site or service that you think is exceptionally well designed? What makes it wonderful?
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Ran across a site called linkli.st the other day:
http://linkli.st/
The site allows users to create, collaborate on, embed and share lists of links.
It has a really distinct visual design, but perhaps more importantly I felt the site is a great example of the power in revisiting something we thought we had solved way back with Web 0.2, adding just a dash of social spice mixed with restrictive simplicity and sitting back to see how (or if
people use it.
I hesitate to promote our own site – but I think it is relevant to this discussion – so I will leave the moderation to the moderator.
At Truehome.net, we apply a human factors approach to the process of designing living space. What we are doing is not yet available online – but our front end is online so those interested can at least get the idea.
The project is called Truehome and the url is http://www.truehome.net. We expect to launch in the next three months.
More about it on my person blog- the Architecture of Life – at http://architecture-of-life.blogspot.com
Some examples I dug into my delicious, which I think can have a substantial role in society are:
http://seeclickfix.com/citizens
allows people to report issues in their neighborhood/community.
http://www.groupsnearyou.com/
http://www.meetup.com/
empower people with common interests to come together.
http://www.pledgebank.com/
pledge to a goal and ask for more people to join