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I'm new to web design and I was very impressed with this presentation. Could anyone tell me what technologies were used to build it? Thank you.
Ones that don't work very well on Nexus 7 / JB. Seriously, the point of a web page is to convey information. This one sucks hard at it, because it jitters like crazy while scrolling.
There's no indication that you should start scrolling the page. I completely missed that fact the first time I visited.
I clicked on a few random things and got no response, and tried right-scrolling, but figured it out in 20 seconds or so. Still, not very intuitive on Chrome on OSX where the scrollbars are hidden.
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Sure, most people probably do, but Lion & Mountain Lion hide the scroll bar if there's a trackpad, as was the case for me. I clicked the link from pg's Twitter feed, read the words "Airbnb is poised to bring memorable local experiences to our truly global community", thought "that's nice", and went along my way.
I switch back and forth between a crappy desktop PC at work and a nice desktop PC/Macbook Air at home so I'm familiar with Apple thinking it's a good idea to hide scroll bars. That always bothered me.
FWIW, they also put out a very nice print version of the annual report. Don't know if it's available on PDF but in paper-form, it's quite well designed.
This is very nicely done, and the numbers show AirBNB has grown to be a powerful force in the travel industry. Given this growth, I hope they are working on an official response or plan to address the problems they are having in New York City seen here: 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/your-money/a-warning-for-a... 2. http://gothamist.com/2013/02/05/east_village_man_fights_30k_...
This is very nicely done, and the numbers show AirBNB has grown to be a powerful force in the travel industry. Given this growth, I hope they are working on an official response or plan to address the problems they are having in New York City seen here: 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/your-money/a-warning-for-a... 2. http://gothamist.com/2013/02/05/east_village_man_fights_30k_...
I somehow cannot convince myself that Airbnb not a niche. I do see it as a useful thing under some circumstances like SXSW or the Obama inauguration.
The purpose of website scrolling is to replace information that has been seen with information that hasn't - and to provide the reverse operation when scrolling the other way.
This design beautifully conveys the data visualization aspects of the page combined the message they are trying to craft and integrates it into the natural behaviour of the browser: the scrolling motif. Note that they also preserved the incremental change of the scroll - unlike some sites where they have attempted to flip a whole page at a time per scroll.
As far as re-inventing the scroll, I say bravo. This is truly innovative.