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Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

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Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

#41

As a Brit, the name makes me giggle :-) (The equivalent US interpretation of how it reads to me being, perhaps, 'airfanny').

I'm imagining a flying ass, shitting everywhere.

So that just made my day. Sure, now I have Mt. Dew all over my monitor, but I can't stop giggling now.

Thank you.

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

#42

One of the only uses of this type of page scrolling that I actually think works pretty well (YMMV, I'm on Windows/Chrome). Having said that the name really is so bad that it kills it. I wouldn't send a link around to people in the form of http://www.airbum.co/gmcbay or whatever a user url will look like. I "get" the album connection you're going for but the end result is in expert-sex-change territory as far as how i…

I didn't even catch the "album" play-on-words. I just read it as "Air Bum," as I'm sure many others did.

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

#46
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The design is great and this is a really nice way to display a travel album, but the experience is not there. I'm sure when testing over a local network this is fast but even over my 30mbps connection I had to wait a long time for all of the images to load. That's not normally a problem but the page seemed totally 'frozen' until about half of the pictures had loaded, and scrolling was full of jank until it was totall…

The site is hosted on S3 and cloudfront right now. The poor performance might be because the page transaction and animations. My initial vision is display the album similar to a photo book, now seems nature scrolling might be more acceptable.

Re: Airbum – A simple and elegant online album

#47
post #7

The design is great and this is a really nice way to display a travel album, but the experience is not there. I'm sure when testing over a local network this is fast but even over my 30mbps connection I had to wait a long time for all of the images to load. That's not normally a problem but the page seemed totally 'frozen' until about half of the pictures had loaded, and scrolling was full of jank until it was totall…

The site is hosted on S3 and cloudfront right now. The poor performance might be because the page transaction and animations. My initial vision is display the album similar to a photo book, now seems nature scrolling might be more acceptable.

I, unlike some others, don't mind the paginated scrolling. I just think it would be good to be able to quickly flip through pages without delay just because the images are loading.

A good example would be a Facebook photo album. If I click the left arrow as fast as I can, the page keeps flipping instantly. Instead of seeing each picture, I see a small loading icon and a box where the picture will be. When I finally stop mashing the arrow, the picture I'm settled on will load.

I hope you don't find my comments overly critical. It's a beautiful design, just trying to be constructive.

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