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That main image makes my astigmatic eyes very unhappy. https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Comp-3.gif https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/upl

That main image makes my astigmatic eyes very unhappy. https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Comp-3.gif https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Comp-3....

abtinf 1y ago
Why did they animate it to add a blur?
- GuinansEyebrows 1y ago
  probably to evoke the feeling of undergoing an eye exam.
  - dylan604 1y ago
    I can hear the tech asking "number 1 or number 2"
    - ahazred8ta 1y ago
      https://web.archive.org/web/20250730205400/https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200308/df20030815.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20250730205400/https://nerocam.c...
    - somat 1y ago
      It's probably just me being a huge introvert, but I dislike saying "I am not sure do it again" more than twice and am always left a bit discontent wondering if the prescription is as good as it should be. I wish I could book 30 minutes alone with the machine and just dial it in perfectly myself.
      - bonoboTP 1y ago
        Once I felt like I'll be really attentive and answer confidently, and in the end I got overminused. The hesitation is part of the signal. If it's 1% sharper, even if you can tell which one is 1% sharper, you gotta say hmmm number 1 is a bit better but just a little. Adding -0.5 to the diopter will often make the distance noticeably sharper in appearance while not really giving you more lines you can read, it's a sensation of sharpness but not really more info. And for that you a price because near vision will require straining your eye muscles to accommodate, and that will often cause headaches and tiredness after reading or working at a monitor.
      - jrockway 1y ago
        It's worth finding an optometrist that you have a good rapport with for that reason. I got lucky and get along really well with the person that I see; the results are worth speaking up for. (I had two somewhat persistent problems before I started seeing her... One was that my prescription was focused a little before infinity because the sign is 20 feet away and not infinity feet away. We tweaked some stuff and fixed that problem. The other was that if I'm tired and it's pretty low contrast outside, I always see double. We added some extra prism for that and it's helped a lot. I've had the same prism prescription for 30 years but adding more was a noticeable improvement.)
- atonse 1y ago
  OMG I kept thinking my glasses (progressive lenses) were causing that. I didn't realize it was animating.
- darkwater 1y ago
  Can't you clearly see why?
pimlottc 1y ago
That's horrible, the full page blur is less bad since it's so obvious. But man, you should never be intentionally gaslighting the user by making them second-guess their own vision.
- Orygin 1y ago
  The full page blur is horrendous. Every navigation to the page triggers it, so if you click and link and hit back, here's a blurry page for 2s. It also nearly triggers headaches for me, so clearly the webdesigner should not be hired for anything serious...

That main image makes my astigmatic eyes very unhappy. https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Comp-3.gif https://optician-sans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Comp-3....

abtinf 1y ago

Why did they animate it to add a blur?

GuinansEyebrows 1y ago
probably to evoke the feeling of undergoing an eye exam.
- dylan604 1y ago
  I can hear the tech asking "number 1 or number 2"
  - ahazred8ta 1y ago
    https://web.archive.org/web/20250730205400/https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200308/df20030815.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20250730205400/https://nerocam.c...
  - somat 1y ago
    It's probably just me being a huge introvert, but I dislike saying "I am not sure do it again" more than twice and am always left a bit discontent wondering if the prescription is as good as it should be. I wish I could book 30 minutes alone with the machine and just dial it in perfectly myself.
    - bonoboTP 1y ago
      Once I felt like I'll be really attentive and answer confidently, and in the end I got overminused. The hesitation is part of the signal. If it's 1% sharper, even if you can tell which one is 1% sharper, you gotta say hmmm number 1 is a bit better but just a little. Adding -0.5 to the diopter will often make the distance noticeably sharper in appearance while not really giving you more lines you can read, it's a sensation of sharpness but not really more info. And for that you a price because near vision will require straining your eye muscles to accommodate, and that will often cause headaches and tiredness after reading or working at a monitor.
    - jrockway 1y ago
      It's worth finding an optometrist that you have a good rapport with for that reason. I got lucky and get along really well with the person that I see; the results are worth speaking up for. (I had two somewhat persistent problems before I started seeing her... One was that my prescription was focused a little before infinity because the sign is 20 feet away and not infinity feet away. We tweaked some stuff and fixed that problem. The other was that if I'm tired and it's pretty low contrast outside, I always see double. We added some extra prism for that and it's helped a lot. I've had the same prism prescription for 30 years but adding more was a noticeable improvement.)
atonse 1y ago
OMG I kept thinking my glasses (progressive lenses) were causing that. I didn't realize it was animating.
darkwater 1y ago
Can't you clearly see why?

pimlottc 1y ago

That's horrible, the full page blur is less bad since it's so obvious. But man, you should never be intentionally gaslighting the user by making them second-guess their own vision.

Orygin 1y ago
The full page blur is horrendous. Every navigation to the page triggers it, so if you click and link and hit back, here's a blurry page for 2s. It also nearly triggers headaches for me, so clearly the webdesigner should not be hired for anything serious...