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Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by nhumrich »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #160

I don't understand this article at all. It says every pricing page should have gifs, but doesn't say why. Maybe it says in the images, but they don't load at least under my current adblock configuration. For that matter, JS and gifs of any sort on a web page are effectively another annoying captcha when I just want the information. For pricing, please just post a CSV or equivalent, and get out of the way.

The video demo makes the article make a little more sense. But essentially there is a GIF tooltip for every feature listed on the pricing page so that you know what the listed feature in the comparison matrix, it's talking about.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by fuzzer37 »

Minor49er wrote: post #136
ichydkrsrnae wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

onHover has always been a psuedoschizo decision. There are places where nothing is more useful, but misuse it and it aggravates the hell out of everyone, not unlike browser frames/iframes/etc 20 years ago.

What is a "psuedoschizo" decision?

Almost schizophrenic. Made sense to me.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by tannhaeuser »

throwawayboise wrote: post #97
matt-attack wrote: post #48

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I noticed that change recently and assumed it was motivated by Tesla. There are certain things we all take for granted when driving. A huge one that we probably don’t give much conscious thought to us this: How do we know if the lane to the left is ok to go in, or if it actually is for carrying oncoming traffic? You’d like to think that one way though not the only way, is to look for a double yellow line. As in, doub…

Yellow lines separating oncoming traffic is not universal though? I believe in the UK that the center lines are white?

Living in Germany and having only driven in Mexico (City) as far as the Americas go, I admit to not understand what yellow lines signify to US drivers, like at all ;) At my place, they're used for temporarily "overriding" regular white lines eg at construction sites, and only for that purpose.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by throwaway81523 »

nhumrich wrote: post #161
throwaway81523 wrote: post #160

I don't understand this article at all. It says every pricing page should have gifs, but doesn't say why. Maybe it says in the images, but they don't load at least under my current adblock configuration. For that matter, JS and gifs of any sort on a web page are effectively another annoying captcha when I just want the information. For pricing, please just post a CSV or equivalent, and get out of the way.

The video demo makes the article make a little more sense. But essentially there is a GIF tooltip for every feature listed on the pricing page so that you know what the listed feature in the comparison matrix, it's talking about.

Ah thanks. Is the GIF tooltip somehow better than a plain HTML table with a header over each column saying what it is? Video, ugh ;).

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by Gigachad »

ravenstine wrote: post #159

Not a bad idea in and of itself, but screw hover effects . I've come to really hate everything involving hover. On all sorts of websites there's some menu bar at the top or the side where it's way too easy for me to accidentally move my cursor over it and suddenly 1/5 of the page is blocked. I really wish that these things could just be replaced with a click. If I want to view a dropdown or something with dense detai…

For this kind of thing, I would rather something like the HTML details element where you click the title and it expands the details. You have the chevron to indicate it's expandable, it works on mobile and desktop, and is universally recognized without being obnoxious. I hate sites that make me play the game of "where can I put my mouse where it won't trigger something annoying"

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by Gigachad »

franciscop wrote: post #15

Don't use GIFs, use audioless mp4s instead. They can be made to work in the exact same way as GIFs (autoplay, loop or not, etc) but are a fraction of the bandwidth.

You have to encode it in multiple formats because many systems do not support proprietary codecs.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by Gigachad »

austhrow743 wrote: post #152
dehrmann wrote: post #93

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IIRC, ~everything other than Apple devices works with vp8 and webm. Apple devices like mp4 and x264.

Non apple devices are also fine with h264. AFAIK it’s the video codec with the most support and what I would pick if I’m going to be throwing the one same file at every device.

Most linux distros do not support it by default. I would encode in both h264 and vp9 which would cover everything and the browser should be able to pick the file it supports.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

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Post by metafunctor »

ichydkrsrnae wrote: post #121
stronglikedan wrote: post #95

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This is really the only correct solution in the context of modern UX.

It's a feature comparison page, so that's the fundamental design issue. The GIFs add pop, but the intent is to clarify. How does showing this info. on onHover or onClick in any UX achieve that result? It doesn't. As designed, it's an ad. It is. Look at it. If I'm comparing a product with a full page of features, I'm going to be scrolling up and down. The one thing I absolutely won't do is hover over 16 onHover inform…

Yep, you said it, the pricing page is, in fact, an advertisement of the product.

It's not like you can easily compare the prices between two different products in the same segment.

It's an ad. Embrace it. Leaving out the GIFs doesn't make it less of an ad. It just makes it… a worse ad?

Also, does your boss not have a computer?

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