Sometimes you come across something so poor, you just can’t believe someone who calls themselves a designer could ever manage to not think past the pixel.
Take a look at the scrolling area on the right of the screen here. You see the curved piece of design bottom right? It obscures the text so you can only read about three lines at a time before having to scroll again, just three lines. And again, just three lines (ad infiitum).
Perhaps Jakob is right, we should be stil focussing on usability, perhaps the web world just isn’t ready for the next step into experience design. Certainly, to design good experiences you got to have the basic usability in place, or you get a mess like this.
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Oooohhh boy!!!!
“Certainly, to design good experiences you got to have the basic usability in place, or you get a mess like this.”
Some basic knowledge of the fundamentals of layout might help too.
Started a but thought better of it…
Classic ‘web design’ -looks pretty (well, in the loosest sense here!) and doesn’t work at all.
Ho hum. Just like the ‘desktop publishing revolution’ compounded a million times.
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Comment by Simon Crosbie — October 31, 2004 @ 11:09 pm