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Look at each site of the day from the last week, and compare them to your average corporate site. 10th: no resemblance whatsoever, enormous unforced usability

Look at each site of the day from the last week, and compare them to your average corporate site. 10th: no resemblance whatsoever, enormous unforced usability problems (e.g. scrolljacking). 9th: grossly unusable, no resemblance whatsoever. Exemplar of the worst excesses of a highly-ranked Awwwards site. 8th: a lot of resemblance, but the “interesting” parts are the bad parts. 7th: see 8th. 6th: superficial resemblance, but with far more problems due to being “interesting”. 5th: no real resemblance, bad scrolljacking problems. 4th: see 5th. Long-known-to-be-harmful trends like scrolljacking and replacing the cursor (probably with a `backdrop-filter: invert(1)` circle, these days) seem to appear on well more than half of the Awwwards site; but they are fortunately rare on the web at large. I’m not saying corporate sites are without problems—“yes, things are stupidly bad”—but the persistent stupidity that is scroll-linked entrance animations are a very different kettle of fish from the problems of a typical Awwwards site.

potato-peeler 1y ago
From the blog - > Instead we get auto-playing videos, excessive animations, aggressive pop-ups, and disappearing text. It's frustrating I randomly pulled up stripe.com alternatives [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] - literally all of them have the same style of global menu, unwanted animations as you scroll, big text, big images, and I guarantee you none of them will work properly in an older browser, (try a 2 yr old mobile os). [0] - https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives-eu/#paypal https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-a... [1] - https://tipalti.com/en-eu/ https://tipalti.com/en-eu/ [2] - https://trolley.com/pay/ https://trolley.com/pay/ [3] - https://www.paypal.com/nz/home https://www.paypal.com/nz/home [4] - https://www.payoneer.com/ https://www.payoneer.com/ Here are first 3 sites I pulled from producthunt - [5] [6] [7] - again literally the same structure and problems. [5] - https://chroniclehq.com/ https://chroniclehq.com/ [6] - https://bubble.io https://bubble.io [7] - https://wegic.ai/ https://wegic.ai/ The author clearly mentions this as a problem, just too many animations, for no reason at all. Are you telling me these weren't inspired from awwwards? Design has gone to the gutters - material design/windows 11 design/liquid glass design. All of them are sacrificing usability over unwanted animations. I seriously miss the days of blackberry and nokia. Usability was paramount those days. > Long-known-to-be-harmful trends like scrolljacking and replacing the cursor ... seem to appear on well more than half of the Awwwards site; but they are fortunately rare on the web at large Give it some time my friend, it wont take long [https://design.google/ https://design.google/]

potato-peeler 1y ago

From the blog - > Instead we get auto-playing videos, excessive animations, aggressive pop-ups, and disappearing text. It's frustrating I randomly pulled up stripe.com alternatives [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] - literally all of them have the same style of global menu, unwanted animations as you scroll, big text, big images, and I guarantee you none of them will work properly in an older browser, (try a 2 yr old mobile os). [0] - https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-alternatives-eu/#paypal https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-a... [1] - https://tipalti.com/en-eu/ https://tipalti.com/en-eu/ [2] - https://trolley.com/pay/ https://trolley.com/pay/ [3] - https://www.paypal.com/nz/home https://www.paypal.com/nz/home [4] - https://www.payoneer.com/ https://www.payoneer.com/ Here are first 3 sites I pulled from producthunt - [5] [6] [7] - again literally the same structure and problems. [5] - https://chroniclehq.com/ https://chroniclehq.com/ [6] - https://bubble.io https://bubble.io [7] - https://wegic.ai/ https://wegic.ai/ The author clearly mentions this as a problem, just too many animations, for no reason at all. Are you telling me these weren't inspired from awwwards? Design has gone to the gutters - material design/windows 11 design/liquid glass design. All of them are sacrificing usability over unwanted animations. I seriously miss the days of blackberry and nokia. Usability was paramount those days. > Long-known-to-be-harmful trends like scrolljacking and replacing the cursor ... seem to appear on well more than half of the Awwwards site; but they are fortunately rare on the web at large Give it some time my friend, it wont take long [https://design.google/ https://design.google/]