Powerful content. At the risk of being pedantic, I think the site would be a better service to its content by using a standard vertical scroll layout. I viewed many of the photos but found it too easy to stop because of the difficulty in side scrolling
whats wrong with horizontal scroll? If a site has both horizontal and vertical scroll, the site looks messy! Horizontal scroll is also good to scroll pictures.
Agreed. Great site, but just noticed that when one of the pics is missing, it tries to fit another pic on the same screen and looks pretty nasty. Reloaded page and can't reproduce unfortunately, but it was part of: http://beforeidieiwantto.org/india_gujarat.html
The inability to scroll left/right kills it. Also, some of the text from the top bleeds between the pictures at 1366x768.
I think the content is better suited to a horizontal layout because of its shape.
You can argue against the usability of it if you wish, but I think Javascript hijacking the scroll wheel and converting scrolling vertically to scrolling horizontally would be really useful in this case.
A similar idea was implemented at the 2011 Hungarian "Sziget" festival. They installed a huge wall where visitors were able to write their "Before I die" messages.
I can't even read half of these, peoples handwriting is so terrible. One there says "Before I die I want to raise a child" but it took be a full minute to not read it as "I want to ride a child"
The ones not written in English are clearly not what I'm referring to.
The ones written in English have terrible hand writing by people who clearly speak English as a first language. Pretty much all of the non-native English speaking people are easy to read.
It's a pretty good example of Maslow's hierarchy of needs - the travellers are firmly at the self actualisation stage whereby they do not need to focus on fulfilling lower needs.
I almost cringed when I saw the juxtaposition of India and New York; I thought this project, like others I have seen, was discrediting the life goals of Americans to trivialize so-called First World problems.
But that was far from the truth. It presented the stories of people in New York, India and in hospices with equal care and respect. I love the colors and the look of old film, too.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 85.3 ms ] threadIncluding a bigger arrow icon after the right photo would help.
The inability to scroll left/right kills it. Also, some of the text from the top bleeds between the pictures at 1366x768.
You can argue against the usability of it if you wish, but I think Javascript hijacking the scroll wheel and converting scrolling vertically to scrolling horizontally would be really useful in this case.
http://sziget360.com/panorama/link/762
The ones written in English have terrible hand writing by people who clearly speak English as a first language. Pretty much all of the non-native English speaking people are easy to read.
It's because criticising handwriting is a waste of life.
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The Indian kids just want to study, while the adults want to own houses/shops. The travellers on the other hand, have more abstract goals.
Fascinating. And also sad upon further thought
http://www.mybigambitions.com/
http://www.bucketlist.org/
And probably the oldest of them all?
http://www.43things.com/
Surprisingly, people still post occasionally....
I hope the website could do what it wanted to before this.
That made me laugh :P
Amusing: "... I want a government job."
But that was far from the truth. It presented the stories of people in New York, India and in hospices with equal care and respect. I love the colors and the look of old film, too.