I like it. Makes complete sense.
Sure, this and that could or should be improved. But only ever focussing on those things is depressing.
Every pricing page should have GIFs
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Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs
#132There's a UX problem on mobile. I have to click on something to make the GIF appear. What do I click? A link. Expected behavior of a link is to link me elsewhere, not to show a pop-up GIF, so I'm immediately confused when that happens. I also can't figure out how to make the link actually link. Does it link anywhere? Is it even a link or just Jscript onClick thingy? Do I have to click on the GIF to make it link, beca…
Also, use WebM, not GIF, for better compression. GIF is obsolete trash from the 1990's internet.
You can have a GIF fallback but 99% of browsers don't need it.
Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
>For cat videos - most likely. Not at all [1] https://techjury.net/blog/mobile-vs-desktop-usage/#gref [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/277125/share-of-website-... >Do you work for Google? That's pretty much the only "we" that's been hammering that. Nope. It's just everyone, really. [3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web... [4] https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/process/ui-design/what-is-mobil…
[1] talks about using mobile devices to "close deals", which is not the same as a b2b web traffic. [2] doesn't talk about b2b segment at all. People who are buying products and services, especially of IT nature, sit in the office in front of their laptops and desktops. We have an installable desktop product. Guess the percentage of mobile traffic on its website? It's 5%. Five. So, yeah, "it even works on mobile" make…
There are exceptions to every rule, of course, and b2b/enterprise is its own little world with infamous idiosyncrasies.
But a low percentage of mobile traffic could also be a self fulfilling prophecy. If your mobile site sucks, well, guess who's going to use it.
Also, it's not that hard to make a good mobile site, you actuality have to a get out of your way to make a bad one if you follow best practices. I wouldn't mind an easy increase in my income, even a few percent.
Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs
#134Why 20 MB of GIFs when you can have 200 KB of videos?
Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs
#135Don't use GIFs, use audioless mp4s instead. They can be made to work in the exact same way as GIFs (autoplay, loop or not, etc) but are a fraction of the bandwidth.
Do they work if the user has disabled autoplay in browser media settings? This is one of the first things I do when setting up a browser.
I’m curious, would you disable GIF autoplay if the browser’s settings offered it?
Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
It reminds me that we don't see "floating" touchscreens anymore. The Galaxy S5, and probably other phones had this feature where you could actually trigger hover targets by hovering your finger above the screen. I just tried it on my Galaxy S5 the linked page and it works flawlessly. It may be one of the gimmicks Samsung loved to put in their phones at the time, but as we can see, it is not completely useless. And it…
onHover has always been a psuedoschizo decision. There are places where nothing is more useful, but misuse it and it aggravates the hell out of everyone, not unlike browser frames/iframes/etc 20 years ago.
What is a "psuedoschizo" decision?
Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes liberties are taken here, such as California originally separating carpool lanes with yellow lines (when they should have been white). Presumably they felt that even though yellow was incorrect, it sent a clearer "do not cross" message to drivers. They were later ordered to change them to white.
Were there mandatory prescriptive federal guidelines on HOV lane line colors when California introduced carpool lanes, or did they only come after California had been using yellow lines? Personally, I do find yellow lines are a stronger border, but then I grew up in a culture of yellow carpool lines. I feel like white lines are almost always ok to drive over, and yellow lines usually aren't (although yellow dotted li…
I think it's because yellow is supposed to indicate traffic moving in the opposite direction. That's why it's a stronger signal (in theory), but not "correct" for an HOV lane moving in the same direction.
Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
onHover has always been a psuedoschizo decision. There are places where nothing is more useful, but misuse it and it aggravates the hell out of everyone, not unlike browser frames/iframes/etc 20 years ago.
What is a "psuedoschizo" decision?
A conflicting decision. Please ignore the word, my brain made it up.
Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs
#139This reminds me a useful feature of Lotus Word Pro 96:
If you selected a tool and did nothing for 2-3 seconds, the mouse cursor changed into an animation that hinted what you could do.
Anything you can do to help people figure out what your software does, and how to use it is 100% worthy.
Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs
#140There's a UX problem on mobile. I have to click on something to make the GIF appear. What do I click? A link. Expected behavior of a link is to link me elsewhere, not to show a pop-up GIF, so I'm immediately confused when that happens. I also can't figure out how to make the link actually link. Does it link anywhere? Is it even a link or just Jscript onClick thingy? Do I have to click on the GIF to make it link, beca…
Navigating on mobile is something you do on the go, when there are no other options. Of course it's going to be a downgraded experience.