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Coolest ticket selector ever

I don't know how many times I've blindly purchased seats in theaters I've never been to after failing to make sense of the convoluted seating charts. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's implementation is fantastic: The view of the seats from the stage, and it shows the view from a section when you hover over it.




After picking the section, it shows you the seats in the section. Pick from the available seats and you're done. Bravo!

Posted: Jan 13 2005, 05:48 PM by jeffreykey | with 4 comment(s)
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TrackBack said:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra: There's a different type of UI for choosing a seat here... the left pane shows all seats in the theatre, and when you roll over a seating area, the right pane will show a representative photograph of...
# January 13, 2005 9:05 PM

Ryan Rinaldi said:

That UI does rock. The first time I used I was absolutely amazed at how great it was. What's even more amazing is that they have been using that UI since at least '01-'02!
# January 14, 2005 9:44 AM

Jeff Key said:

Wow, cool! The best part is that it's absolutely unnecessary: It's not like people aren't going to "shop" with them if the experience isn't this nice. :)
# January 14, 2005 6:43 PM

chris ehrhardt said:

CSO lauched that site in 2000; Lynch2 did the flash work (http://www.lynch2.com/); I remember looking at that site when I was doing research right before I had planned to bid on a job to redesign the Bass Performance Hall of Fort Worth (www.basshall.com) web site. Maybe I should have made that effort, cause their tickting system compared to CSO is laughable. =]
# January 15, 2005 3:55 AM