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Side-topic alert. Stripe is my top design company these days. Just looking at their landing pages [1], [2], I'm deeply impressed by their effort on making the

Side-topic alert. Stripe is my top design company these days. Just looking at their landing pages [1], [2], I'm deeply impressed by their effort on making the web beautiful. Huge inspiration for me. Kudos to their front-end / design teams. 1: https://stripe.com/atlas https://stripe.com/atlas 2: https://stripe.com/connect https://stripe.com/connect

OJFord 10y ago
Except I can't read this blog post on my Nexus 7, Android, Chrome. (Both sides are cut off.)
- devopsproject 10y ago
  You pesky android users are always complaining about my beautifully designed pages. They look great on my iPad. There must be something wrong with your droid /s
  - memco 10y ago
    Not to rain on your parade, but it also cuts off on the right side when shifting from portrait to landscape on iPhone SE.
- tormeh 10y ago
  Works fine on my Nexus 6P. Guess they didn't test Android tablets.
  - vinay427 10y ago
    It doesn't work on my Nexus 6 with a modified DPI to emulate a tablet, so yes, this is likely the case. I'm not sure how they missed such a major set of screen resolutions.
user5994461 10y ago
Well, they just became my worst design company. The noise the fan of my laptop made after 10s of that connect page. OMG. I do not approve of these useless animations. Lucky I'm not running on low power mode or that would probably have frozen my browser for some time.
- sotojuan 10y ago
  The good old case of developers and designers only testing their sites on a maxed out Macbook Pro running Chrome with super fast fiber.
  - yen223 10y ago
    Everyone knows their target audience are folks using 5-year-old android tablets in places with only spotty 3G connections.
    - user5994461 10y ago
      When you'll send a link to that new payment provider you're interested in (Stripe) to your manager/boss/coworker. He might very well open that on the move on a tablet with a 3G connection. You're not making a good first impression if the only feedback you have is the site didn't load, and I speak from experience ;)
      - Veen 10y ago
        I loaded it on my iPad Air 2 over a 3G connection and it was perfectly fine.
- mhotchen 10y ago
  I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content. I'm in China atm, which is probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation), and both those sites take a stupid amount of time to load. That animation also destroys my mediocre laptop. The pages look nice and are rich in content, but those animations and all the superfluous fonts and stuff cause them to be almost unusable if you're not on reasonably new hardware with a reasonably fast internet connection.
chairmanwow 10y ago
Both of these sites rendered BEAUTIFULLY on my phone. Honestly, I don't understand why we aren't capable of expressing appreciation for beautiful websites. I am personally so tired of the boring drudgery that most of the internet consists of. I hope to see a lot more of these alive and interesting sites in the future.
jnordwick 10y ago
Maybe they could fix some of their broken links before worrying about the other stuff.
Karupan 10y ago
As a front end dev, I once told my colleague Stripe's landing pages are absolutely delightful to look at, but I personally will not develop something similar if I had to.
franciscop 10y ago
Totally agree, I actually even opened an account just for that (though haven't used it yet). Not only the landing pages, the documentation is also beautiful and totally readable. I wonder what the trade-offs of designing like this are, if any.

OJFord 10y ago

Except I can't read this blog post on my Nexus 7, Android, Chrome. (Both sides are cut off.)

devopsproject 10y ago
You pesky android users are always complaining about my beautifully designed pages. They look great on my iPad. There must be something wrong with your droid /s
- memco 10y ago
  Not to rain on your parade, but it also cuts off on the right side when shifting from portrait to landscape on iPhone SE.
tormeh 10y ago
Works fine on my Nexus 6P. Guess they didn't test Android tablets.
- vinay427 10y ago
  It doesn't work on my Nexus 6 with a modified DPI to emulate a tablet, so yes, this is likely the case. I'm not sure how they missed such a major set of screen resolutions.

user5994461 10y ago

Well, they just became my worst design company. The noise the fan of my laptop made after 10s of that connect page. OMG. I do not approve of these useless animations. Lucky I'm not running on low power mode or that would probably have frozen my browser for some time.

sotojuan 10y ago
The good old case of developers and designers only testing their sites on a maxed out Macbook Pro running Chrome with super fast fiber.
- yen223 10y ago
  Everyone knows their target audience are folks using 5-year-old android tablets in places with only spotty 3G connections.
  - user5994461 10y ago
    When you'll send a link to that new payment provider you're interested in (Stripe) to your manager/boss/coworker. He might very well open that on the move on a tablet with a 3G connection. You're not making a good first impression if the only feedback you have is the site didn't load, and I speak from experience ;)
    - Veen 10y ago
      I loaded it on my iPad Air 2 over a 3G connection and it was perfectly fine.
mhotchen 10y ago
I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content. I'm in China atm, which is probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation), and both those sites take a stupid amount of time to load. That animation also destroys my mediocre laptop. The pages look nice and are rich in content, but those animations and all the superfluous fonts and stuff cause them to be almost unusable if you're not on reasonably new hardware with a reasonably fast internet connection.

chairmanwow 10y ago

Both of these sites rendered BEAUTIFULLY on my phone. Honestly, I don't understand why we aren't capable of expressing appreciation for beautiful websites. I am personally so tired of the boring drudgery that most of the internet consists of. I hope to see a lot more of these alive and interesting sites in the future.

jnordwick 10y ago

Maybe they could fix some of their broken links before worrying about the other stuff.

Karupan 10y ago

As a front end dev, I once told my colleague Stripe's landing pages are absolutely delightful to look at, but I personally will not develop something similar if I had to.

franciscop 10y ago

Totally agree, I actually even opened an account just for that (though haven't used it yet). Not only the landing pages, the documentation is also beautiful and totally readable. I wonder what the trade-offs of designing like this are, if any.