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Re: All Websites Look the Same

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Post by trymas »

unicornporn wrote: post #42

Aaand... Looking at their landing page[1] I can see they've chosen to go with a horizontal page layout. Because they use a non standard page layout they have a black stripe bumping in and out of the viewport instructing the user that they can/should scroll. This is quite a common layout among artsy portfolio themes[2]. Has anyone ever tried to sidescroll a web page lately? On my Yosemite MBP with latest Firefox/Chrom…

Exactly! As I said in my other comment in this same thread, their website is quite bad, they use unintuitive and wrongly implemented UI, which produces horrible UX.

For me - scroll hijacking (or crazy unintuitive scrolling in general) is the worst 'feature' 'web designer' can implement. Gives me instant rage.

Re: All Websites Look the Same

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Post by kenOfYugen »

All websites look the same because they rely on 'best practices'. If you have a 'better practice' go ahead and implement it, thus inspiring the best practices to come.

That's how the human world evolves, slowly blending the old with the new.

Re: All Websites Look the Same

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Post by digital-rubber »

drikerf wrote: post #9

I believe it's a good thing. When websites follow some kind of blueprints it makes it a lot easier for the user since they can recognize it. The negative side is of course that it might slow innovation, although slow isn't always bad.

Or easy to create a phishing version.

Re: All Websites Look the Same

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Post by pmontra »

All "normal" stairs, windows, roofs, tables, chairs look the same. There are good reasons for stable architectural patterns. There are good reasons for web design patterns too. Go back to the 90's and early 00's. There were so many different styles. A few won and became the ancestors of today's styles. Many more lost and got extinct. Sure, there are other styles that nobody thought about that are better than what we have today. They'll get created from time to time, copied and refined.

Re: All Websites Look the Same

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Post by amelius »

21echoes wrote: post #4

(Most) all websites should look the same. Most browsers look the same. Most car dashes look the same. Most newspapers look the same. Most books look the same. The web is not art. At least, not most of the time. Websites should only look markedly different with good reason. For most clients, there is not a good reason.

> (Most) all websites should look the same.

Yes, modulo marketing concerns. Which obviously is something not regarded very highly on this forum :)

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