I'll dissent here: I like it. It's different from the default behavior and took a moment to get used to, but I much prefer this to the parallax-esque behavior I see more commonly. This mimics a swipe very well. Though worth noting that I scroll with two fingers on a touch pad, so it turns into very much a physical swipe.
The UX is definitely different, but it works for me.
I like it too, when it works. It's a nice clean swipe thing. But it goes in the opposite direction for me about 30% of the time. (Using two-finger scroll on a Macbook Pro trackpad.)
What infuriated you about it? It isn't a smooth scroll, sure, but it suits the content. I get much more annoyed by sites that try maintain smooth scrolling while still presenting "slides" of information. Then you spend 80% of the time scrolling through useless transitions. This site felt pretty easy to consume.
I have a tendency to scroll while I am reading. This made it so the first section, which I had not yet finished reading scrolled out of view. I scrolled back up and had to re-look for my place and instinctively scrolled down again losing my place again. Took strong will to give up scrolling and read each slide completely before moving on.
Deviates significantly from a normal user experience and results in a jarring experience for me personally.
It made me leave the website almost immediately, despite being somewhat interested. It's not usable for me on a totally standard MacBook Air, because as soon as I even touch the trackpad, the website decides to scroll up a whole page, when of course I wanted to scroll down.
I'm not interested in fighting with ridiculous scrolling games. If they don't care about testing their ridiculous scrolling plugins, I don't care about their product.
Sometimes I reach out to companies on Twitter or email telling them to please disable their weird scrolling effects. Nobody seems to care. I conclude that this behavior signifies a company that doesn't care about user experience.
By now I'm a little curious about these things, so I did a simple test of starting at the top and trying to scroll down to read the rest of the page. I can't find any way to consistently scroll to the third page. Just touching the touchpad on the second page causes an upwards scroll, even when I'm very obviously trying to scroll down.
It takes control away from the user and breaks the default scroll behaviour. It's frustrating and annoying and I instantly feel at odds with any company that uses it. Also has the tendency to glitch out on trackpads and go past where I want it to.
basseq|10 years ago
The UX is definitely different, but it works for me.
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lojack|10 years ago
Deviates significantly from a normal user experience and results in a jarring experience for me personally.
mbrock|10 years ago
I'm not interested in fighting with ridiculous scrolling games. If they don't care about testing their ridiculous scrolling plugins, I don't care about their product.
Sometimes I reach out to companies on Twitter or email telling them to please disable their weird scrolling effects. Nobody seems to care. I conclude that this behavior signifies a company that doesn't care about user experience.
By now I'm a little curious about these things, so I did a simple test of starting at the top and trying to scroll down to read the rest of the page. I can't find any way to consistently scroll to the third page. Just touching the touchpad on the second page causes an upwards scroll, even when I'm very obviously trying to scroll down.
antihero|10 years ago