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Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

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Re: Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

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Post by dylan604 »

aho15 wrote: post #28
AfterHIA wrote: post #19

This is not unconventional-- this is the conventional web I want. I want the internet to be a groovy place again. Rave on ravers.

Not sure if I'm with you on this one. I see what you mean but I also have a hard time to understand what's going on on these sites. So in my eyes these are quite exactly what the author called it. Unconventional. However I like the idea of getting these concepts shown and shared just to see what could might work or what causes a lot of attention.

reminds me of early Flash days where everyone was so excited about not having to use tables/frames/etc and started making "organic" sites instead of structured sites. so usability was neat and interesting, others were outright confusing. weird styles have their place, but people like to follow trends and use weird styles when it is not appropriate. these tend to feel like square pegs in a round hole.

Re: Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

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Post by Theodores »

I get the idea but these feel like those demoscene things people make for really old 8-bit computers.

What I am looking for is inspiration for presenting some actual content, for example, stories with a beginning, middle and end, with meaningful call to action forms and text that is designed to be read rather than 'shapes on a page'.

I am not dismissing what goes on here, or even the demoscene, it is great to see. However, I think that people are struggling to read these days, so lots of text, no matter how well presented, is just not what people read. How do you get people totally absorbed without it being video or a game?

I understand the UX of the UK government websites where information is presented very clearly and is engaging (if you need to do something to do with health, taxes and whatnot). But this super-clear approach doesn't convey that an immense amount of effort has been spent on presentation.

I am also bored of normal Wordpress style websites with the tedious carousels and whatnot, Squarespace fits this 'yawn' style too.

Although I did not find a website to be deeply engaged in with loadmo.re, I am inspired and impressed. There is much to borrow from here and many 'experiments' that are trying to do things new. Props to the site maintainer for doing the research to find these 'diamonds (in the rough)'.

Re: Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

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Post by Animats »

dylan604 wrote: post #31
aho15 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure if I'm with you on this one. I see what you mean but I also have a hard time to understand what's going on on these sites. So in my eyes these are quite exactly what the author called it. Unconventional. However I like the idea of getting these concepts shown and shared just to see what could might work or what causes a lot of attention.

reminds me of early Flash days where everyone was so excited about not having to use tables/frames/etc and started making "organic" sites instead of structured sites. so usability was neat and interesting, others were outright confusing. weird styles have their place, but people like to follow trends and use weird styles when it is not appropriate. these tend to feel like square pegs in a round hole.

It does feel a lot like the Flash era.

Girbaud, which was once a cool clothing brand, had an all-Flash site for years. It looked like a 3D stack of cubes, and if you clicked on the cubes, interesting things happened. Short videos and pictures would pop up, audio clips would play, and then they'd fold back into their cubes. Very cute.

But it was really hard to order stuff. Just finding out where the items for sale were was tough.

Their site today is totally vanilla. They have product pages and "Add to Cart" buttons, like everybody else.[1]

[1] https://www.girbaud.com/en

Re: Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

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Post by justusthane »

trudypainter wrote: post #24
justusthane wrote: post #6

Found this on there, which is really neat: https://slingshot.trudy.computer/

thank u for playing!

I found https://gizmo.party/ via your site, which I am also very much enjoying! Very fun use of vibe-coding, which I’ve been overall pretty resistant to.

Although I do wish it wasn’t such a black box — I wish the code for the gizmos could be examined, exported, or embedded elsewhere.

Re: Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

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Post by memonkey »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #32
jama211 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All this amazing art and stuff on this site and all you could do was find something nitpicky to complain about? Sure says a lot…

It says that UX matters even when doing art.

UX matters when doing art = pen, paper, paint.

But UX does not matter when experiencing art. OP is entitled to feel nit picky and pissy and a critic because of the normal way they experience the web. It does not mean his critique matters.

Re: Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

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Post by AfterHIA »

jadbox wrote: post #26
AfterHIA wrote: post #19

This is not unconventional-- this is the conventional web I want. I want the internet to be a groovy place again. Rave on ravers.

It is neat, but personally I'm not wild about it. Most of these examples are terrible for accessibility needs, and otherwise a frustration if you visited to find specific information. I do appreciate the novelty though.

I think that it might be good-- taking a queue from the legacy of, "markup is separated from presentation" that sites that display information in a straightforward way should be, "boring and accessible as fuck" where, "conveying abstract information" should be, "inspiring."

I feel like we can have our cake and eat it too.

Re: Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

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Post by temperceve »

jama211 wrote: post #21
lampiaio wrote: post #15

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All this amazing art and stuff on this site and all you could do was find something nitpicky to complain about? Sure says a lot…

Exactly this. I hate to say it but this is the main reason I stopped coming to HN. I need some kind of, like, Marvin the Robot filter to make it so I can more easily avoid the tiny thoughts.

Re: Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web

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Post by zetanor »

jama211 wrote: post #21
lampiaio wrote: post #15

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All this amazing art and stuff on this site and all you could do was find something nitpicky to complain about? Sure says a lot…

The website's raison d'être is linking to other websites, and that part doesn't work well. It's not a nitpick if the main thing is broken.
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