It was very hard for me to read. On a large screen, there are several animations visible at once all competing for my attention. A lot of the big caption text is invisible after the first line or two so I had to open browser dev tools to work out what it was supposed to say. All the effects on the visuals mean it's difficult to read meaningful data from them either.
You're not supposed to "read meaningful data". You're supposed to be overwhelmed by the slick, professional, glamorous world and lifestyle of freelancing, and sign up for their service.
Personally, I found it didn’t hijack my scrolling and ran very smoothly but my phone is only 2 years old. It’s the only site of its sort that didn’t run awfully, it’s the only 100% smooth one of these I’ve see. I was impressed with the programmer. Design/Presentation wise though, I didn’t know when I was looking at abstract art and when it was a chart. The height of the sections also made it hard know where to line up your view or to know what a caption referred to
I wonder why other devices ran it slower. iOS here. From the chat, it seems like desktop is borked and they never tested on Firefox?
Out of curiosity: what are the downsides to using a lot of three.js? Do you hit battery life issues often or get peoples fans spinning, or does the gpu just handle it easily for sites like this?
That is the most frustatingly slow and cludgy page to scroll through that I've seen in a long time. Absolutely unnecessary. My mac mini really struggled to render that.
While I appreciate the effort that went into the visual effects of the site, rendering it brings my phone and even on a desktop computer having a sentence take up the entirety of the display area makes it kind of cumbersome to read.
Needles to say it was an interesting read and I can tell the effort you put into making this. I'll take a look at the full report later today when I have more free time.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 67.5 ms ] threadIs it a modern art installation?
I found the opening mildly annoying but on "slide 2" the counter-scrolling pink headlines were so distracting that was it, I stopped reading.
Life's short and I only have one pair of eyeballs.
I wonder why other devices ran it slower. iOS here. From the chat, it seems like desktop is borked and they never tested on Firefox?
My concern is that data should be presented as plain text. There isnt a need for rotating coins saying "look! data!" with neon color animations :)
Looks like this is really just a promotional site for their product/service.
Sadly the design is similar, luckily there aren't bar graphs jumping around all over the place.
Specifically for "product", apparently every independent product who is taking control of their lives learns agile, kanban, waterfall or scrum.
Did they survey people or word2vec?
Needles to say it was an interesting read and I can tell the effort you put into making this. I'll take a look at the full report later today when I have more free time.