Improving on Infinite Scrolling

I’ve been thinking a lot about infinite scrolling lately. We’re cooking up some interesting stuff and Viewzi and are considering implementing this behavior in a few very specific scenarios.

What is infinite scrolling? Instead of breaking content into ‘pages’, as a user nears (or scrolls to) the end of a set of content or results, more content is seamlessly loaded behind it creating one long continuous page. Humanized likes this approach because the concept of “pages” really has no semantic meaning to a person. Those numbers at the bottom of the page don’t really mean much. Second, and perhaps most important, by scrolling to the bottom of a “page” the user is essentially telling the system that they are ready for more content. Why should they have to ask for it?

Back from SXSWi: My favorite panels

Stephen, Jeremy, Jarek, and myself are back from SXSWi after 4 intense days of eating, drinking, and paneling.
 My favorites:

Field guide to design inspiration with Jason Santa Maria and Rob Weychert
Kath Sierra keynote
Stop Designing Products with Peter Merholz
Mobile Design with Brian Fling
Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui with Jeremy Keith and Derek Featherstone
Bullet Tooth Web Design: Plan Your Web Site like Pulling […]

My SXSWi Schedule

Saturday, March 10th

10:00am
Emerging Social and Technology Trends

11:30am
Getting to Consistency: Don’t Make Your Users Think

2:00pm
Kathy Sierra Opening Remarks

3:30pm
Stop Designing Products

4:05pm
Ruining the User Experience: When JavaScript and Ajax Go Bad

5:00pm
High Class and Low Class Web Design

Sunday, March 11th

10:00am
Designing for Convergent Devices

11:30am
Making Your Short Attention-Span Pay Big Dividends

2:00pm
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Mobile Web…but Were […]