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The most beautifully designed interview ever

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Re: The most beautifully designed interview ever

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Is this thread title a joke? Or Sarcasm? I'm on an 11" air screen, and I feel like I'm looking through a very thin Letterbox, meagrely scraping together a few words of meaning before having to re-adjust my position to get more of the picture.

In fact, scrolling down past the title, and the header image, leaves one state of the page display to nothing but a half-cutoff flowchart, the bottom of a chin, and the rest of the picture is taken up by cleavage. Probably not the intended effect. (Edit: Like So: http://xgkkp.com/images/screenshot_mostbeautifulpage.png. I'm not going to read a page called "Women And Tech" that thinks that is a good way to target their apparently intended demographic)

Re: The most beautifully designed interview ever

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post #2

Is this thread title a joke? Or Sarcasm? I'm on an 11" air screen, and I feel like I'm looking through a very thin Letterbox, meagrely scraping together a few words of meaning before having to re-adjust my position to get more of the picture. In fact, scrolling down past the title, and the header image, leaves one state of the page display to nothing but a half-cutoff flowchart, the bottom of a chin, and the rest of…

It looks great on a big screen, though. So I guess the title should be renamed beautiful site that looks great on a big monitor but cramped on a little one.

Re: The most beautifully designed interview ever

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post #2

Is this thread title a joke? Or Sarcasm? I'm on an 11" air screen, and I feel like I'm looking through a very thin Letterbox, meagrely scraping together a few words of meaning before having to re-adjust my position to get more of the picture. In fact, scrolling down past the title, and the header image, leaves one state of the page display to nothing but a half-cutoff flowchart, the bottom of a chin, and the rest of…

It looks great on a big screen, though. So I guess the title should be renamed beautiful site that looks great on a big monitor but cramped on a little one.

It looks like it scales to the current width, so presumably a very wide window on a big monitor would look just as bad?

Re: The most beautifully designed interview ever

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Yes, gorgeous girls...

And annoying design...

I quickly scrolled down to see if anytime it would stop with the annoying stupid pictures, but it did not...

And I did not enjoyed the pictures either, even thought the women on them were pretty, the effect itself was overly distracting.

The effect IS interesting, but I did not read it, neither saw the pictures, in fact the only thing it made me to do was waste my time commenting on how bad it is.

Re: The most beautifully designed interview ever

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks great on a big screen, though. So I guess the title should be renamed beautiful site that looks great on a big monitor but cramped on a little one.

It looks like it scales to the current width, so presumably a very wide window on a big monitor would look just as bad?

It looks great full screen on my 1440x900. I'm not sure if that qualifies as big though.

Re: The most beautifully designed interview ever

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks great on a big screen, though. So I guess the title should be renamed beautiful site that looks great on a big monitor but cramped on a little one.

It looks like it scales to the current width, so presumably a very wide window on a big monitor would look just as bad?

It looks horrific on my 1920x1080. Enormous scary pictures, giant text that's still only taking up half the screen. I hate design.

Re: The most beautifully designed interview ever

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Design is not just how something looks, but how it works, and this design fails miserably in that regard. Scrolling with a mouse wheel is just one of the ways you can browse through a web page. I'm a chronic page-downer; I use the spacebar to do so. I find it very difficult to track text that is moving, so I prefer to move the page one "page" at a time, reorient myself, then read everything I can see.

I kept paging up and down in an attempt to figure out why the page was jumping around and I was only seeing parts of photos. It wasn't until I reached for my mouse and scrolled up and down repeatedly that I figured out what was going on.

The "oh cool" image reveal effect isn't a good enough trade off for me to continue using a site that implements this style. I hope it doesn't catch on.

Re: The most beautifully designed interview ever

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post #2

Is this thread title a joke? Or Sarcasm? I'm on an 11" air screen, and I feel like I'm looking through a very thin Letterbox, meagrely scraping together a few words of meaning before having to re-adjust my position to get more of the picture. In fact, scrolling down past the title, and the header image, leaves one state of the page display to nothing but a half-cutoff flowchart, the bottom of a chin, and the rest of…

The title wasn't a joke. I love the way the interview is presented. The team clearly put a lot of time into it. I especially love the collage they created of a bunch of the women who have attended Ladies Learning Code workshops. It was really unexpected, and I was blown away when I saw it yesterday morning.