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I didn't realize that the menu was actually a spinning cube until I tried to highlight the title text with my mouse cursor. Pretty cool
by Minor49er 4y ago
I didn't realize that the menu was actually a spinning cube until I tried to highlight the title text with my mouse cursor. Pretty cool
- danrochman 4y agoAnd I didn't realize it until I came back to HN and read your comment. Now I'm noticing the little "swipe sideways" animation (or whatever that's called), but I think it's too easy to miss. At least, it was for me, on mobile. That said, now that I know how it works, it works well, and looks great.
- meryll_dindin 4y agoThanks for sharing! I'll try to tweak that UX to make it slightly more straightforward
- NKosmatos 4y agoI have the same comment, couldn’t understand the purpose of it and then I noticed the small sliding animation that made me flip the cube. May I suggest something more obvious like arrows of some kind. Even better, I would add an auto rotation timer every few seconds to rotate the cube and flip sides. One the user understands how this works and rotates the cube manually, the auto timer can stop.
- meryll_dindin 4y agoThanks for sharing! Have been hesitating a lot between the swiping animation and the arrow — it has been hard to gage UX on this one, but seems like the arrows are somewhat of a more straightforward indication
- Minor49er 4y agoI didn't realize that that was a swiping animation. It might be cool to pair it with rotating the cube in the swipe direction just enough to show that there are sides with extra information as a brief animation, then have it come back into place, or even show a slight rotation towards whichever direction the cursor is closest to as it's moving away from the middle. Or even show it in a quick spin right as the page loads
- meryll_dindin 4y agoGood teaching for my UX skills haha glad you found out about it at the end!