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Re: Yotaphone

#91

Post by calinet6 »

natch wrote: post #89

Some cool ideas here. Not new ideas, but if they are put into a shipping product, that will be good. Then they have "Stand out from the crowd," ugh. This is an unfortunate bullet point, just for its lameness. The screen doesn't look like a paper display to me. What am I missing? Are there color paper displays now?

They should have this as the first graphic everyone sees -- drag the slider below the phone: http://www.yotaphone.com/#/en/techspecs/

Or this for a static image: http://www.yotaphone.com/#/en/images

Re: Yotaphone

#92

Post by calinet6 »

BrechtVds wrote: post #2

The "Scroll down" hint wasn't obvious enough for me. I'd also show both screens as soon as you land on the page, as that is the unique feature of this phone and it took me quite some time before I actually found it. (If you don't scroll but just click on the links you just see 1 screen at a time. If you aren't really paying attention you don't notice that there are 2 different ones)

I had no clue it scrolled. Bad UI.

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#93

Post by calinet6 »

davidw wrote: post #42
kenkam wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't know I had to scroll down till I read this comment. Maybe a stronger call to action to scroll would be nice.

If you have to "yell" at people to do something like that, it means your UI is broken.

It should just start moving automatically. And it shouldn't be linked to scrolling, because what they're doing is not scrolling.

What they want is an animation, with a nice timeline control or video-like scrubber.

That goes for everyone who wrongly commandeers scrolling in the name of this new animated storyline fad.

Re: Yotaphone

#97

Post by Scriptor »

ryanwhitney wrote: post #25

The scroll changes the smartphone display instead of moving down the page, and more often than not lands between transitions. If you'd like to sell a phone, hire a web designer that shoots for real goals instead of trendy bullshit.

I feel like a lot of this trendy stuff comes out because it demos very well. The designer shows it off in a controlled setting, everyone's wowed and impressed and glad they hired a "good" designer, and nobody bothers to check whether it's actually useful at all. Someone should've pointed out the website is there to sell the product, not to showcase the FE guys's skills.

Re: Yotaphone

#98

Post by nrj »

Doublon wrote: post #16

Some issues with the scrolling on my MBP with Chrome. Otherwise it looks nice!

Same. I had to drag the scroll handles to get it to work.

Re: Yotaphone

#99

Post by kenkam »

mradmin wrote: post #43
kenkam wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't know I had to scroll down till I read this comment. Maybe a stronger call to action to scroll would be nice.

Weird, I get a scrollbar showing I can clearly scroll. Are you an OSX by any chance?

I'm on Windows at work and the scroll bar was visible (when I went there the 2nd time) but either I didn't notice it or I ignored it. In any case I think the content itself just didn't look like it required scrolling. Instead I clicked on the features on the left.
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