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Re: Don't Click It

#41

Post by ahoyhere » Sat, Jun 06, 2009, 1:41 PM UTC

Great marketing for a student project. Clever and fun. Not practical... but it doesn't have to be, it's a combination research / art project / thesis / marketing stunt. And in those senses, it works very well.

Gotta explore the unthinkable to come up with new things to think...

Re: Don't Click It

#42

Post by mgcross » Sat, Jun 06, 2009, 2:32 PM UTC

Using an eeepc with Ubuntu, the screen will dim after a couple of minutes without clicking. That's more a problem with Ubuntu's energy saving (or maybe the eeepc-specific kernel I'm running) than with the site, but it does underscore the presumption of clicking being linked to interfacing (scrolling does not keep the machine from starting the energy saving process - only clicking).

The site is a neat experiment, but I can't help but feel that most users are conditioned enough from previous flash sites and non-flash rollover actions (drop downs, tool tips, etc) that they would find it easy not to click.

The animation was more than a little sluggish on this poor atom processor. It could have been more effective and less distracting had the animations been limited to rollover/click interactions. I guess that's the case with most flash sites. I'd like to see the site executed using html and javascript.

Re: Don't Click It

#43

Post by hyposave » Sun, Jun 07, 2009, 1:19 PM UTC

As a programmer it does make me rethink the interface design concept. I really liked the whole timed button idea where you need to leave the mouse pointer on a button for a few seconds while a progress bars slowly activate the button. That could be a step towards elimanating spam or drunk emails.

Re: Don't Click It

#44

Post by thorax » Sun, Jun 07, 2009, 3:15 PM UTC

cduan wrote: post #33

Kejistan wrote: post #4

Interesting site, but I really cannot understand why the mouse click is a "bad" thing. Having pages do nothing unless you explicitly click is a great thing, that site showed me exactly how annoying it can be to control an interface that wants to rearrange itself all the time based on mouse movements. Moving the mouse to a link and having the link move AWAY because you happened to move across one of the links between…

Interface tries to intelligently rearrange itself, and ends up annoying user? Reminds me of that old MS Office "feature" of hiding unused menu items, which bugged me like crazy.

Yeah, it really makes me feel paranoid that the item I want will be hidden when the menu is shown, so I always expanded it (until I turned it off entirely).

I'm probably the only one who feels the same way about hidden tooltray icons, too, but I usually expose them all on Windows.