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This was an absolutely dreadful and arresting experience for me. What was going on in my head: Okay, so I'm looking at this thing, and moving the mouse moves t
by simonsarris 16y ago
This was an absolutely dreadful and arresting experience for me. What was going on in my head:
Okay, so I'm looking at this thing, and moving the mouse moves this mouse on the page... WOAH.
What? The page changed? I wasn't even done reading the last page. I don't even know what page I used to be on. The back button does not seem to work.
Things were moving underneath the text I was trying to read while confusion was being generated far faster than any enlightening design. Page changes were also very upsetting, I don't want to be nauseated as I try to explore a website.
And I certainly want a way to go back to where I was if I accidentally move the mouse. A click is a commit to do something. Apparently on these pages I can commit to doing something by merely moving the mouse, and there's no way to go back if I do something I didn't mean to commit to! Whats worse, I had to move the mouse to see things more clearly, because the page as-presented was not as clear as it might have been.
- jordan0day 16y agoYeah, the whole time I was being annoyed with stuff changing even though I didn't ask it to (by clicking, of course!), I was telling myself "They're trying to show me how clicking has ruined my brain! They're going to show me how this is better!" I never learned how it was better. I only lasted on that site for about 45 seconds. I saw some "aren't these mouse gestures better than clicking?!?!" examples, but to me they just seemed like roundabout ways of... clicking. Obviously mouse gestures can be more powerful, since a click is basically "execute the action represented by the glyphs underneath my mouse pointer" while a gesture can be "do any number of actions irrespective of where my mouse pointer currently is", but this site didn't seem to take advantage of that.