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Re: Exactitudes

#11

Post by theon144 »

Wow, completely aside from the content, the navigation on the site is terrible!

First you have this mouse-over effect that highlights a 3x4 segment of photos; but does nothing, which made me think I was doing something wrong when I kept arriving at the same page.

Then you have the horizontal scrolling gallery which doesn't let you click other photo series than the one currently "selected" by being in the middle of the page.

Then you finally arrive at the single photo series, and the scroll wheel is disabled, leaving you to move your mouse at the edges of the page to move it RTS-style.

All of the standard navigation features are reimplemented badly, it's like they tried to be non standard and surprising.

But the photos themselves are great, I like it!

Re: Exactitudes

#12

Post by Theodores »

theon144 wrote: post #11

Wow, completely aside from the content, the navigation on the site is terrible! First you have this mouse-over effect that highlights a 3x4 segment of photos; but does nothing, which made me think I was doing something wrong when I kept arriving at the same page. Then you have the horizontal scrolling gallery which doesn't let you click other photo series than the one currently "selected" by being in the middle of th…

You have to understand that it is art. Hence the user interface has these "affordances". You are probably not an artist so you therefore don't understand why the main page has the images and text too small.

The slight UX concern though is the audio. Not sure whether I would want to open this page in an open plan office with the speakers on:

http://exactitudes.com/index.php?/series/detail/5

Re: Exactitudes

#13

Post by vages »

theon144 wrote: post #11

Wow, completely aside from the content, the navigation on the site is terrible! First you have this mouse-over effect that highlights a 3x4 segment of photos; but does nothing, which made me think I was doing something wrong when I kept arriving at the same page. Then you have the horizontal scrolling gallery which doesn't let you click other photo series than the one currently "selected" by being in the middle of th…

I'd like to add that the mobile version is perhaps even worse. Had to use landscape mode and the siding gallery to get an acceptable resolution. When I tried pinch zooming, the pictures disappeared so that I had to reload the page, starting again from the first slide.

Re: Exactitudes

#15

Post by theon144 »

Theodores wrote: post #12
theon144 wrote: post #11

Wow, completely aside from the content, the navigation on the site is terrible! First you have this mouse-over effect that highlights a 3x4 segment of photos; but does nothing, which made me think I was doing something wrong when I kept arriving at the same page. Then you have the horizontal scrolling gallery which doesn't let you click other photo series than the one currently "selected" by being in the middle of th…

You have to understand that it is art. Hence the user interface has these "affordances". You are probably not an artist so you therefore don't understand why the main page has the images and text too small. The slight UX concern though is the audio. Not sure whether I would want to open this page in an open plan office with the speakers on: http://exactitudes.com/index.php?/series/detail/5

Nah, if anything I'd say I'm primarily an artist, in web/digital as well as interactive A/V works; and I didn't even mention anything about images and text being "too small", don't know where you got that from.

In any project though, and in art especially, there should be a purpose to the decisions made (even if it's as vague as "it felt good"), but in this case I don't really see how the navigation features I mentioned help me appreciate the photos better, or how they work on their own.

Clicking twice to get to a gallery doesn't help me see the project in a different light. Absence of a scroll wheel makes me focus more on hovering my mouse at the edges just long enough to not overshoot or undershoot, rather than the photos themselves.

In the end it's just a web presentation of a photography project! There's not much room to change stuff constructively.

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