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This is a classic read: http://datagenetics.com/blog/november12013/index.html
Interestingly when I long pressed the codes marked as “No” (in Safari mobile), a lot of them were still decoded.
As an engineer, the lack of consideration for the matter of how much one should corrupt a signal (which might be scanned under different conditions, such as different light levels and resolutions) is grating to me. It’s like scratching a design onto the bottom of an audio CD, playing it, and if it works on your CD player, shipping it. “Works for me”
I get what you mean, it's a misuse of the underlying technology and a crude hack in some ways, but if it's stupid and it works it's not stupid.
It has very bad UX because it muddles the "affordance" of a QR. A QR should explicitly and clearly look like a QR for people to understand they should use it as such.
It isn't effective because it degrades the bandwidth of QR codes. It reduces the amount of information you can place on QR codes.
This is just a gimmick, a funny trick that implements bad functionality.
As in Jurassic Park: just because you can do it doesn't mean you should do it.
I don't like this. I hope it dies soon. It has very bad UX because it muddles the "affordance" of a QR. A QR should explicitly and clearly look like a QR for people to understand they should use it as such. It isn't effective because it degrades the bandwidth of QR codes. It reduces the amount of information you can place on QR codes. This is just a gimmick, a funny trick that implements bad functionality. As in Jura…
My phone camera couldn't recognize any of the generated ones. Looks cool though
My phone camera couldn't recognize any of the generated ones. Looks cool though
I don't like this. I hope it dies soon. It has very bad UX because it muddles the "affordance" of a QR. A QR should explicitly and clearly look like a QR for people to understand they should use it as such. It isn't effective because it degrades the bandwidth of QR codes. It reduces the amount of information you can place on QR codes. This is just a gimmick, a funny trick that implements bad functionality. As in Jura…
And second, if it does become very popular, users will become familiar with it and will likely instinctively grok that some of the ‘art’ they are looking at can be scanned as a QR code. Phase one will be artsy QR codes with a written caption: “Hey, this is actually a QR code! Scan it!” Phase two, is removing the caption because people are so accustomed to them.
My phone camera couldn't recognize any of the generated ones. Looks cool though
I tried with built-in camera app of my Samsung m21.
If anyone wants to use this, they should do a lot of testing first.
Edit: I also noticed that angle matters when scanning from certain monitors, the first qr code didn't work at first, but I noticed the top of the picture was too dark then I tried to hold the phone in the same angle as the screen and it worked.
I’ve seen these and they are so novel! The problem is they don’t look like QR codes. A regular QR code, regardless of the fact they are an eyesore, people know what to do when they see one on a menu. Artistic ones don’t really look like QR. Def don’t want to have to add an arrow and “scan this!” I suspect this will come on more handy incorporating QR into larger murals that people might photograph anyway. iOS camera…
Maybe it's because I've read a bit about how they work and in general have seen a lot of them, but I can recognize these are QR codes even if they weren't labeled as such