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Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

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Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

#5
For a moment I considered buying the ad space on the final page of the demo just to capitalize on the blip of traffic you'll be seeing today.

The space is 175x125, which is not a size I have a creative ready for. I've never seen a space that size before. Any reason for the nonstandard dimensions?

Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

#6
This is definitely a cool demo.

One detail I noticed that might be worth adjusting is that I assumed clicking on the "Flip" box on the right side of the page would actually flip the page.

So from a usability perspective if you were actually implementing this on a real site, a popup when you click on that explaining how to swipe/drag the page over could be helpful since this is a new style of changing pages not everyone would expect? Or just make clicking on that button actually flip the page, although that kind of ruins the point of the design.

Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

#8
This works surprising well on my iPad. Nice work.

But, I hope this doesn't mean I'll see more of this on websites. It reminds me of OnSwipe, which almost always results in me immediately hitting the back button (if my browser doesn't crash first).

A don't want novelty UIs. I've never had a problem reading a 'non-tablet-optimized' article on my iPad.

Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

#9
Very nice (as mentioned, very natural experience on the iPad). Constructive criticism: I really don't like how the back button works at all. Flipping pages here intuitively feels like scrolling, not page navigations. I really don't want to mash my back button 50 times to go back to the previous site when I'm done reading an article.

Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

#10
This is very pretty, but the UI is anachronistic. Whilst it is very cool to be able to do this and I really hope that people don't do this.

Scrolling through is a much nicer way to read through a site as you're not limited in your presentation of information by a form factor as you would be in a magazine - you don't need to fill a page and you don't need to cut information out to make a limit. If you need separators, use horizontal line separators.

This is a pretty technical accomplishment, but I see no reason to use it other than "wow! cool!".

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