Gidsy

I discovered Gidsy while booking for the blog workshop I attended last week and I immediately fell in love with it, for several reasons.

Beautiful Design

Gidsy’s design has a tremendous good taste. The color palette is well chosen and is really easy on the eyes.

The chosen types are spot on as well:

• Myriad Pro Semi Condensed used in the headers; and
• Myriad Pro used in the text and UI controls.

Another great example on good taste are the colorful icons, which are present everywhere in the website. Simple and well designed, it is an example for the “one image is worth a thousand words” motto.

Great Usability

It is simple to use. Really simple. Kudos to Andrew McCarthy for having designed this delightful web site. I can see a lot of effort put on details that will remain unseen by the majority of users, such as the mouse-over transition from the “Gidsy” logo to “Home”.

Awesome!

Awesome Idea

Other than the extreme good taste and an example of well designed website, it is an example of modern and thoughtful implementation of a concept. Its creators aim to enable normal people like you and me to host exciting activities such as workshops and tours. It is basically the idea of think locally and act globally.

There are several examples of those interesting activities already being hosted there, such as Making fresh Pasta di Mama with AH food[1] and Amsterdam Sightrunning.

In fact, I found the idea so amazing that I’m thinking about host my own workshop, but I still don’t know the subject.

I think you also should consider doing it, because in life you’re either learning or teaching. And everybody have something to teach.