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- kingmanic, on 10/22/2008, -1/+15Adobe Flash: Breaking Browser conventions and making sites unusable since 1996
- Bloodwine, on 10/22/2008, -0/+12I prefer functionality over form. Cold, starch, minimalist ... words to describe "no flash, just get down to business".
- doiveo, on 10/21/2008, -3/+13I like rich and textured designs like Funnel Design Group - when done well. I'm tired of the cold, starch web 2.0 look.
- slicecom, on 10/22/2008, -0/+9I HATE FLASH BASED SITES! Flash is ruining the internet.
- PabloIV, on 10/22/2008, -0/+7I like the look of them all, but as someone who has to make websites for corporate masses on a daily basis. Most of these sites are confusing and difficult for the common user.
There's really very little regard for usability or consideration for people coming fresh to the site without prior knowledge of what it is supposed to do.
Again I generally liked them conceptually, but practiacally they need a little more "real world" polish.
Ecept for GrooveShark, great job, seriously. - Joudoki, on 10/22/2008, -1/+8I didn't even notice that this was posted by MrBabyMan until I saw your obnoxious comment.
I've never seen this before and I enjoyed the article, so I see no problem with it... - Jhonka, on 10/22/2008, -1/+6This whole article is pretty bad.
Half of the websites listed, such as Like.com, MirrorsEdge.com, Six pixels of Seperation are all generic web layouts.
And there's OkayDave and Serge Seidlitz that both use the same "search the collage" interface that anyone who needs to actually find information will hate.
I feel more like the author is just supporting some cool sites that he likes, rather than actually appreciating good web design.
That being said, Fontpark and some of the others are damn cool - robfrye, on 10/22/2008, -0/+5creative != good UI
- liljay2k, on 10/22/2008, -1/+6Is your life all about whining about Digg's frontpage and writing in all caps?
- MadTom, on 10/22/2008, -1/+5This article is better than any political ***** thats been on the home page.
- Rapter09, on 10/22/2008, -1/+5Creative user interfaces are fine, but it's just as terrible and boring to create "mystery meat" navigation, like some of these examples. I don't want to have to go searching through your stupid arcane and 'creative' website just to find the button that links to your portfolio. If I have to spend an overly long time trying to find stuff, I'm gonna say to hell with your website - no matter how pretty it is.
Then again, maybe I'm just an old man set in his ways. - franklymister, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4I run the user experience department for a large agency in New York.
The first thing I tell designers is "be creative with your content, not your navigation."
I really take issue with the sentence "rewarding visitors for clicking will encourage them to spend more time discovering your content." WRONG.
Having great content that is easy to find, tells people why they'd be interested in it, and leads them to other great content, is the way to get people to spend more time discovering your content. - arapro, on 10/23/2008, -0/+3whatever
- PHLAK, on 10/23/2008, -0/+3Digg me up if you're sick of all these blingy (usually flash based) sites appearing on Digg.
- ukblacknight, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3OkayDave makes me feel like I've failed at life.
- gridity, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3Picnik.com -featured in the article - does have a really clean interface for editing photos. Super easy to use for non-designers, I just played around with it (tho I use Photoshop anyway) and it's cool what they did - I could see my friends & family members using that.
- FredFredrickson, on 10/22/2008, -1/+4I couldn't possibly be the only person who's getting a little site of the "bunch of ***** right in the middle" collage type images that appear in every form of media these days. You know, the ones with the rays of lines emitting from the center, the vector organics spewed all over them, and the paint splatter all over? Like most of the stuff here: http://www.hypnoteis.nl/
It's decent design stuff, but not when you use it for every godamned thing you do. - inactive, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Yes form follows function, but design is about balancing the two.
I also share your passion for minimal style under the right context. - cubicledrone, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Just describe it with the word "rich" followed by a comma and another adjective. That usually makes incompetent ***** corporate executives start writing a check.
- koonchu, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Navigaya. Chuckle.
- UCBrother, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2It's all about creativity now.. Half the time if your product is the cheapest in the Net it doesn't make any difference if you site looks like crap on a stick
- fullphaser, on 10/22/2008, -0/+2Exactly, while the Funnel design group may have the whole "cool" factor going on, it makes their site much more difficult to navigate, especially when the open and > and < buttons are not easy to find
- PabloIV, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2You are very correct sir. Navigation should be the single most obvious thing in a site. it should also be consistent through all the site's pages.
- slicecom, on 10/22/2008, -2/+4I'm glad someone agrees with me. Flash sites suck.
- nmaster64, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1If you are all ten then you are a...
Friendly, addicted, youthful, music-loving, creepy, alternative, funky, sexual, meticulous, energetic, manic, easily distracted, creative, impatient, dedicated, up to date, manboy-ish, obsessive-compulsive, intelligent, bored with life, flashy, photogenic, invasive, brainy, invisible, sponge-like person who loves new toys and pedometers and is hanging on for dear life. - allengeer, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1Am I the only person engulfed in the Viewzi photo cloud thing?
- FredFredrickson, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1*getting a little SICK (proof reading FTW)
- dbradman56, on 02/15/2009, -0/+1A browser within a browser window.. thats awesome guys
Tian
http://talismanclick.com - apena89, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1Navigaya:
wow, a browser within a browser. awesome.
/s - Ben174, on 10/22/2008, -1/+2I've always thought this was an interesting concept in UI: http://www.dontclick.it
No clicking, just hover over UI elements and they'll expand. - bubut, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1define: duh
- svivian, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1Exactly, barely any of those sites, as good-looking as they are, have innovative user interfaces at all.
- andysowards, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Flash sites are fun, I think thats all they really need to be. All they ever will be probably.
- PabloIV, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Most of his work aren't actual clients but projects for school.
Also the fact that this site is about 3 years old implies he doesn't have anything new.
You can feel better now. - svivian, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1* Flash IS supported by 99.9% of web browsers.
* Indexing/machine-readable Flash files are being developed
* incessant flashing is bad design, not a problem with Flash, same as using bright red text on a yellow background in regular HTML.
* I wouldn't say they need to be updated more often, but I guess it's harder to do lots of small updates
and you leave out the most prominent flaw (in my eyes anyway) that you have to pay to develop in Flash (officially). - brettalton, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1That's all my work uses. I try, time and time again, to explain to them why they should stop using primarily Flash and they just won't listen.
* Flash is NOT supported by all browsers
* Flash is inaccessible by people with disabilities (screen readers, etc.)
* Google can't index them (well, Adobe is trying to work on that)
* incessant flashing can and DOES give certain people seizures, or, at the very least, is extremelly annoying
* Flash websites need to get updated more often as their design is always trendy
* It is hard to makes content management systems for them, especially when there are such good free and open source ones out there, such as Joomla or Wordpress
* etc., etc. - Midtowner, on 10/23/2008, -1/+1MrBabyman... buried.
- TheNik, on 10/22/2008, -1/+1Dugg for simply playing Uffie in one of the screenshots (although the article IS fantastic). :0
- leader80, on 10/27/2008, -0/+0I personally like the design, it's for sure a good part of a page. Fact is that with web 2.0 is intended a page oriented to the functionality/usability and not to the presentation.
- emberjohn, on 10/22/2008, -1/+1I love the work done by Funnel Design Group..sweet
- doiveo, on 10/22/2008, -3/+1You must be a great lover.
Ok, sorry, that was a bit harsh but my point is straight business is too lifeless and emotionless for every site and every task. I like it when a site design tries to engage my emotional side as well. Operative part here is "as well". Absence of function negates any attempts. - Izikoo, on 10/22/2008, -7/+2Generic comment trying to make it sound like I read the article, when I did not.
- bubut, on 10/22/2008, -16/+8MRBABYMAN, GET A FCKING LIFE AND STOP TAKING UP THE FRONT PAGE
- inactive, on 10/21/2008, -9/+0User interface is what makes any site user friendly which is most important if you having shopping or browsing sites !!
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