Using Melkjug you can calibrate and tune your reading experience.

When a user enters the site it is imperative that they experience this idea of customizing their reading and tune it to their mood or needs. Something like 'Reading in Stereo'

1. Homepage
2. Member Homepage
3. Login
4. addFeed
   
5. addFilter
   
6. sets
   
7. smart filters+
8. people
   
9. instructions and tour
   

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Out There

Filtering through the countless sites that have a combination of interesting features that draw upon collective information to feed the user with relevant results. As well as application that encourage a user to customize the information the put in or get out of it.

MyFlickr - some screen grabs from sites that allow you to customize your content

ebay

amazon -

netflix - the separation whats out there and whats for you...

delicious - the simplicity of this is brilliant

magnolia

google reader

digg

reddit

hypem

muxtape - currently enjoying this a lot! so simple! also does good short URLs.

mixwit

daylife

Yelp

Snooth

Kayak

Farecast - predictive on-the-fly airfare filtering

 

Iterations of Design Mockups (most recent at top)

9. http://img.skitch.com/20080820-faymt4x5d1k77wj7ai5n6ctdg8.png (frontpage) 

8. http://img.skitch.com/20080820-fukn5adqnskrxtgh8xj7awyaic.png  (generic page view) 

7. http://img.skitch.com/20080820-ei3hthkqmy25741xiue5ia7kcr.png  (collapsed view) 

6. http://img.skitch.com/20080820-1d3kgaxtex3982w35844nrm788.png

5. http://img.skitch.com/20080820-mec3pdimx935qfmwdq6cuhefxd.png (gradient tan bg, header is full width)

4. http://img.skitch.com/20080820-ma4fqm9g18t8574xkuj1g2ttw1.png (dark background)

3. http://img.skitch.com/20080820-87fy7n81inrep1gfb26kbe7qf9.png 

2. http://img.skitch.com/20080820-k21r8pykt51nfffwc79kdj8xf9.png 

1. http://img.skitch.com/20080820-jfa4n6u2mjiadaykcccgt5xdkt.png