Sites From April 30 GUI Meetup (& Others)

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Permalink Reply by Scott Murphy on May 1, 2009 at 2:59pm

Speaking of UI, just came across this site. You need to draw an arrow to move around the site. Cool but not sure if every will get it. http://www.red-issue.com/

Permalink Reply by Alyssa K on May 1, 2009 at 4:43pm

Wow Scott, that site is creative, but yeah, I don't think it's the most effective UI....
It took me around 10 seconds to enter the site because I didn't draw the arrow correctly, lol.

Scott Murphy said:

Speaking of UI, just came across this site. You need to draw an arrow to move around the site. Cool but not sure if every will get it. http://www.red-issue.com/

Permalink Reply by Alyssa K on May 1, 2009 at 4:49pm

Hi Dan,

Thank you for hosting last night! I had a great time!

Re: Prada
I agree that the usability is terrible.
I've seen the scrolling slideshow on a number of sites before.
Never liked it because I think it goes too fast and the only way to slow it down is to hover your mouse over it.
Because your mouse slows it down, I assumed that it can speed it up too. But that's not the case - dragging the mouse across the image actually drags the entire window off the page. so that's kind of annoying too

Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on May 3, 2009 at 6:38pm

Alyssa Murphy: Thank you for hosting last night! I had a great time!

Our pleasure. Its was great having a landing page guru join our meet-up!

Alyssa Murphy: re: Prada I agree that the usability is terrible. I've seen the scrolling slideshow on a number of sites before. Never liked it because I think it goes too fast and the only way to slow it down is to hover your mouse over it.

Exactly. Also, why do all the Prada links open layered draggable windows? This is just programmers showing off at the expense of usability. Who wants to deal with window management while browsing products?