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Re: Airbnb Annual

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I agree, it was so nicely done and fluid. This is the reason you hire developers, and not "UX experts" No one other than a really good developer would have made it so fluid and nicely.

Fluid?? Are you joking? Try it on Android (Nexus 7 / JB) Urgh...

I tried it on a bunch of Android devices and the only one that worked well enough to be usable was my Asus Transformer.

Re: Airbnb Annual

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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.

Attaching a mouse re-enables scroll bars, I finally figured out.

Re: Airbnb Annual

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This is beautifully crafted. But more than that, I wish more websites presented an "annual" of some sorts where they proudly displayed advances in a graphically heroic manner.

It really makes you want to associate with companies like Airbnb more when you see projects like this outside of their core competency. Well done.

Re: Airbnb Annual

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Really impressive layout and visuals. I know some folks have complained about the "long form scroll" as being less usable than linked pages broken up by section, but I'm a fan nonetheless. The more I use the web / tablet / phone, the more I find I prefer sites that put all of their content on a single scrolling page. It just feels easier to digest. In this case, honestly, I probably wouldn't have clicked through each…

certainly works quite well in the format of telling a story.

Re: Airbnb Annual

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post #35
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, it was so nicely done and fluid. This is the reason you hire developers, and not "UX experts" No one other than a really good developer would have made it so fluid and nicely.

Fluid?? Are you joking? Try it on Android (Nexus 7 / JB) Urgh...

Many Android devices lack hardware rendering, I meant fluid on quality software. iOS devise, Chrome. Etc.
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