Noteworthy: Amazon's WindowShop Offers A Sleek Interface For The Online Megastore

By Dietrich T. Schmitz on October 27, 2008 8:18 PM
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Amazon's WindowShop Offers A Sleek Interface For The Online Megastore

by Jason Kincaid on October 27, 2008

Today Amazon has launched a new storefront called WindowShop, which presents some of the store's newest and most popular movies, books, and video games in a way that makes browsing the online megastore actually fun. Each product is displayed as a tile on a large grid, which users can pan across until they find something they're interested in.

The site seems geared towards shoppers who are just looking for ideas, as there isn't a search feature. Users can scroll through the site using their arrow keys, zooming in on individual products by hitting the spacebar. Each product includes a demo video (in the case of movies, songs, and video games) or an excerpt (from books).

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