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Re: How do they make money?

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Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.

Yes, I too was blocked from further exploring by this bug. Why so much clicking? Wouldn't it be much better if the box with information simply appeared when mouse hovers over the circle?

How about just:

All the logo-buttons on top. Infoboxes neatly stacked below them (with enough whitespace of course), all of them visible. Button links to the corresponding infobox's fragment identifier.

No waiting for animations to finish, no effects, no reducing the scrolling to 2 fps on the average netbook (which made me give up after clicking two buttons, thanks to the position:fixed elements, on 1366x768 you have to scroll to center the infobox vertically, which is pretty hard to do when it moves this clunky), additionally you can just read the infoboxes one by one if you happen to be interested in all of them, and you can even use the browser's built-in find-in-page search to find something specific.

All that functionality missed out on, just because they needed to fade the button's border to brownred in the most inefficient manner imaginable. Maybe it's something else, but somewhere there's a zillion of event-listeners firing away at nothing.

BTW you can almost get the functionality I described if you switch off CSS and JS and reload the page :) They already used the fragment identifiers, got so far and then made it nearly unusable with some JS effects framework ...

Re: How do they make money?

#32
post #9
post #2

Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.

Was just about to post a screenshot but you beat me to a description of the problem.. Nevermind, http://imgur.com/Mkx6R

Came here to post ; http://o7.no/PE3S1P

Re: How do they make money?

#33
It looks like they think Quora is a product of LinkedIn. Judging from the comments here, and from my personal review, the facts of the site seem to be very wrong. However, the design is nice.

Re: How do they make money?

#35
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I too was blocked from further exploring by this bug. Why so much clicking? Wouldn't it be much better if the box with information simply appeared when mouse hovers over the circle?

I usually do not like mouse hover to popup but at least they should have made the background clickable to hide the popup.

I was pretty surprised that clicking the background didn't cancel it out, regardless of this bug (which also stopped me from using the site)

Re: How do they make money?

#36
Just because data hasn't been found proving a company is profitable simply doesn't mean that it's not. It would be better if there was an "unknown" option for those companies.

Another odd tidbit is the Internet Explorer blurb. Having IE bundled with Windows doesn't make IE "profitable".

Re: How do they make money?

#37
post #2

Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.

Design pet-peeve: only way to dismiss a modal window is with a tiny, low-contrast X.

Re: How do they make money?

#39
post #2

Whoever designed this didn't test to see what happens when you click on third row. You can't click most of the windows on the third row because the only spot where you can close them (top right corner) is being covered.

Either they've fixed it already or it must be resolution based.
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