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To all designers: Present your website as if its a piece of paper on your desk. It is rectangular, it has a specific size and it can be manipulated by the stand
by spectramax 7y ago
To all designers: Present your website as if its a piece of paper on your desk. It is rectangular, it has a specific size and it can be manipulated by the standard means that the browser provides (scroll). You can have different sized papers for different screens.
What if every book you buy is one of those origami popup castles that explode upon opening a book? That would get pretty frustrating to read and understand the book. What if some pages move and shuffle unpreditably? What if it autoplays music without user invoking anything? That's essentially what you're doing with websites.
What are they teaching in Design universities these days?
- azinman2 7y agoAs mentioned above, it’s supposed to mimic stairs.
- spectramax 7y agoWhy?
- danso 7y agoBecause a core theme in this story is the difficulty of moving heavy objects up and down stairs. I agree the web implementation is clunky (in a way that doesn't aid the overall reading experience) but I do see what they were trying for.
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