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It's just like a video, except you have to constantly scroll the mouse wheel to make frames advance. It's like we've gone back to using hand-crank projectors.
by normloman 13y ago
It's just like a video, except you have to constantly scroll the mouse wheel to make frames advance.
It's like we've gone back to using hand-crank projectors.
- taeric 13y agoWhich means it probably works fairly well. Just having you scroll is actually a pretty slick way of engaging you. So, yeah, it throws off some folks that are annoyed with the engagement. How many folks just let videos bounce off of them because they didn't engage at all?
- gagege 13y agoThe problem comes when you scroll past some detail because the speed changed. That happens to me a lot with these things. Also, I'm never sure when I'm supposed to stop scrolling. As others have said it's just distracting.
- taeric 13y agoOh, to be clear, I am one of the folks that didn't finish it. :) While at work I need a passive experience more than an active one. I just happen to think it is probably a smarter idea than a video.
- normloman 13y agoIn what alternate universe does "scrolling" count as a meaningful engagement? Engaging means making the user think, arousing their senses, letting them interact with something you've made. It doesn't mean wasting their time.
- taeric 13y agoIn the same world where just getting the user to "touch" something in a store dramatically increases the chances they will buy it. Obviously there are more meaningful engagements out there. But, the comparison is to a video. My assertion is just having the user scroll is more engaging than just having them watch a video. I'd be curious to know if there are any studies on this.
- Glide 13y agoI've always been curious about how most sites like these are made because they've used it well. Unfortunately, this was not one of them. It should have been a video because then it would of had more interesting transitions.