You might consider adding a curl to pages where there is a next page. Once you get to page 2 there's no real indication that there is more content after it.
Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard
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Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard
#12For 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?
I would imagine because most people are not aware of the standard dimensions for banner ads. Plus, in my experience, it seems like most people who think they know the "standard" dimensions would be surprised to learn that other people may think of different dimensions as "standard".
Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard
#13looks like lots of work went into this. it work great. respect. one suggestion. you made me click on article and it zoomed alright, my second thought was i can double click to close it down which obviously did not happen - and believe it it took minute to figure there is a close button on the top lol.
if you made me assume that i can click on the text anywhere to navigate, I immediately stop looking for buttons. adding double click would be awesome. thanks!
- what are the usage terms. can I build a project using this?
Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard
#14looks like lots of work went into this. it work great. respect. one suggestion. you made me click on article and it zoomed alright, my second thought was i can double click to close it down which obviously did not happen - and believe it it took minute to figure there is a close button on the top lol. if you made me assume that i can click on the text anywhere to navigate, I immediately stop looking for buttons. addi…
Thanks! You can use it of course (with caution :) )
Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard
#15looks like lots of work went into this. it work great. respect. one suggestion. you made me click on article and it zoomed alright, my second thought was i can double click to close it down which obviously did not happen - and believe it it took minute to figure there is a close button on the top lol. if you made me assume that i can click on the text anywhere to navigate, I immediately stop looking for buttons. addi…
Thanks! You can use it of course (with caution :) )
what you mean - caution?
Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard
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#17This 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…
at the same time, a UI like this can be really nice. I don't think it limits the presentation of information but actually simplifies it and let's you gain more info with a single glance. It also allows the designers/editors to draw you in with headlines and pictures in a traditional way, placing what is most important (we would hope) front and center.
will it actually be used effectively? eh...probably not for anything other than on the ipad.
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#18Very 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.
completely agree. If I click the back button, I want to go to where I was before accessing the entire "newspaper" not just back one page (which kinda defeats the entire purpose of being able to flip the pages back).
Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard
#19I love the layout. It looks like it would be great for touch screen devices.
My first instinct was to click the "flip" button. It takes a lot of effort to click and drag with my mouse.
If it's possible I would consider something like making the page lift a little bit when the user hovers over an edge. Then just click to flip the page.
Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard
#20This 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…
I find page flipping to be perfectly suited to browsing section/feature pages. With a lot of boxy items, when you scroll you have to calculate your stops and take care to frame them correctly.
Actually reading an article is a different matter, I hate sites that "support" flipboard and do away with scrolling.