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Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

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Post by unalone »

VDegesys wrote: post #17
nagrom wrote: post #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…

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 anythi…

You can do the exact same thing without page flips. Headlines and pictures front-and-center? Sounds like almost every blog ever written.

Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

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Post by dugmartin »

talmand wrote: post #12
dangrossman wrote: post #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?

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".

I always assumed these were the standards:

http://www.iab.net/guidelines/508676/508767/displayguideline...

Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

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Post by SimHacker »

dquigley wrote: post #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 everyo…

Yeah, "cool demo, but..." -- I was also surprised that clicking the "Flip" 'button' didn't flip. Between that and the fact that you have to be on the left side to flip back, and on the right side to flip forward (just like a real book), instead of being able to flip either way from anywhere on the page, says that they are concentrating on the gimmicky "RealThing" metaphore of a book, and ignoring usability and Fitts' Law.

The User-Interface-Hall-Of-Shame-Worthy QuickTime 4.0 player and IBM's "RealThings" interface design methodology made the same mistake.

http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/qtime.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealThings

Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

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Post by VDegesys »

unalone wrote: post #21
VDegesys wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 anythi…

You can do the exact same thing without page flips. Headlines and pictures front-and-center? Sounds like almost every blog ever written.

it's not about placing headlines and pictures front and center, it's about placing the right ones there, without adding too much complexity...you get the headline, the first few lines of text.. that's nothing new, look to techcrunch or pretty much anything as an example of that. It's the layout and the fact that you see the entire page without being inundated with scroll bars and overloaded with information... and a blog isn't exactly the right thing to be using as an example to compare? in fact, a blog seems like it would care less about which article's are being read and more about just articles being read in general.

Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

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Post by driverdan »

nagrom wrote: post #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…

Agreed. Very cool but people need to move past paper and embrace the screen. Don't try to put paper on the screen, use the screen for what it is.

Re: Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard

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Post by dangrossman »

talmand wrote: post #12
dangrossman wrote: post #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?

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".

By "standard" I mean IAB sizes and the common sizes sold on BSA (where he's selling the ad). All the other ads on his site are common sizes; just this one slot is the weird "175x125 plus text".
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