Today’s entry deals with one of Cookbook’s more controversial features: Amazon.com integration. While this feature clearly won’t be for everyone, I’ve always thought that if Amazon.com’s grocery section had a better interface and presentation, it would be exponentially more usable and useful. Amazon would be a great initial retailer because it offers a comprehensive suite of web services, which is ideal for applications like Cookbook.
Ordering food over the Internet is still in its infancy and won’t replace trips to the supermarket. The infrastructure just isn’t there. However, it can still supplement your shopping habits. You can order online dry goods you regularly stock up on, and that may shorten your trips to the supermarket and let you focus on fresh foods while you’re there.
The first in a series, the following screenshot is of the Cookbook shopping cart. The user can switch between two modes, list view or item view. List view would give you a general overview of your order, whereas item view (as shown) would present the contents of your cart in a more realistic fashion (like your media collection in Delicious Library). Just like the Dock, dragging an item out of the window would remove it.
