Nowadays, when usability sounds a little bit old fashioned. But it still gives interaction designers very good challenges. I was a design a form where the user could select his arrival time. The old solution from which my design started, used a dropdown menu with 24 hour time format. You had 1.00 to 24.00. I thought that I should have had to look into alternatives to a long list of values. The first thing I considered was the a second...

Some days ago I was having a look at monster.com, a website for job posting and carrer development. It has a new cool design that I had not explored yet. I think the visual is pretty solid and well-done: the search box lets you choose between your country (the domain you are surfing on, e.g. dot com for the US) or the rest of the world. And it worked quite well for me (even though I am Italian and changed domain on purpose). However, since...