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Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scr

Anyone else find these sort of sites annoying to navigate? How am I supposed to know how much I need to scroll down? Is the site broken or do I just need to scroll more? Overall, I'm surprised it's taken IBM this long to put out a font.

zackkitzmiller 9y ago
Incredibly.
CabSauce 9y ago
This might be the worst version of this type of page I've ever seen.
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- ggregoire 9y ago
  I usually think comments on HN about UX are overreacted, but wow, this website is definitely awful.
justherefortart 9y ago
Whole reason I came here to comment.
Mononokay 9y ago
It's been around for at least a year.
dharness 9y ago
Yeah wow what a horrible website...
csours 9y ago
It's almost like the UI designer took it as a personal challenge to see how horrible they could make the experience.
- alonmower 9y ago
  I read this comment thinking it was a "typical HN overreaction" but then looked at the page and oh my god you couldn't be more right
  - csours 9y ago
    I normally don't mind things like the NYT experimental pages, but this one is just egregious. When you get to the big IBM, nothing works but the scroll wheel for me. Things you expect to scroll the page: * Arrow keys * Scroll Bar * Page Up/Down Keys * Hold middle mouse button * Scroll wheel (ONLY THIS WORKS) * Mobile swipe (didn't test)
- losteric 9y ago
  Or maybe they hired an animator as their UI designer.
Terribledactyl 9y ago
It's a natural extension of awful PowerPoints
ihuman 9y ago
I can't even use the arrow keys, page up/down, or home/end to navigate with my keyboard. I hate the amount of noise I make scrolling through websites like this.
weego 9y ago
I've never experienced a site where you can't scroll back up before. And then the navigation is a tiny strip of colour that's already closed so you have no signposting as to what the hell is going on? Kudos on the most counter intuitive website I have ever seen. distinctly IBM indeed.
stefan_ 9y ago
It feels like a debug system - like I'm single-stepping animations for their "pixel perfect" correctness. There is a reason they didn't stop improving on animations after the flip book was invented.
lobo_tuerto 9y ago
It's an exercise into negative UX from IBM labs.

zackkitzmiller 9y ago

Incredibly.

CabSauce 9y ago

This might be the worst version of this type of page I've ever seen.

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ggregoire 9y ago
I usually think comments on HN about UX are overreacted, but wow, this website is definitely awful.

justherefortart 9y ago

Whole reason I came here to comment.

Mononokay 9y ago

It's been around for at least a year.

dharness 9y ago

Yeah wow what a horrible website...

csours 9y ago

It's almost like the UI designer took it as a personal challenge to see how horrible they could make the experience.

alonmower 9y ago
I read this comment thinking it was a "typical HN overreaction" but then looked at the page and oh my god you couldn't be more right
- csours 9y ago
  I normally don't mind things like the NYT experimental pages, but this one is just egregious. When you get to the big IBM, nothing works but the scroll wheel for me. Things you expect to scroll the page: * Arrow keys * Scroll Bar * Page Up/Down Keys * Hold middle mouse button * Scroll wheel (ONLY THIS WORKS) * Mobile swipe (didn't test)
losteric 9y ago
Or maybe they hired an animator as their UI designer.

Terribledactyl 9y ago

It's a natural extension of awful PowerPoints

ihuman 9y ago

I can't even use the arrow keys, page up/down, or home/end to navigate with my keyboard. I hate the amount of noise I make scrolling through websites like this.

weego 9y ago

I've never experienced a site where you can't scroll back up before. And then the navigation is a tiny strip of colour that's already closed so you have no signposting as to what the hell is going on? Kudos on the most counter intuitive website I have ever seen. distinctly IBM indeed.

stefan_ 9y ago

It feels like a debug system - like I'm single-stepping animations for their "pixel perfect" correctness. There is a reason they didn't stop improving on animations after the flip book was invented.

lobo_tuerto 9y ago

It's an exercise into negative UX from IBM labs.