It doesn't matter how long you practices the art of design, there are few people that can pull this off by themselves. I believe this guy has natural design talent coupled with years of practice.
I see talent. This is a nifty display of technical prowess. I don't see discipline or any concern for the experience of the user.
Having spent some time in the explorer section, what I see is something pretty, but unreadable. After the novelty of the interface choices fades, it's about as engaging as an XML document. There's no story here, no human element. I am seeing some interesting ideas and uses of space wasted displaying useless data. The experience is disjointed, the navigation is not intuitive, the page does weird things on scroll, and it doesn't work in IE11 (which is more offensive to me than it likely is to most of his audience - I switched to chrome to play with this).
If I were looking through this as a portfolio piece, I would be impressed with the technical elements of the design, a bit put-off by the usability problems, and confused (and a little upset) as to why a record of travel to 72 cities is presented in such a dehumanized manner.
I thought so too, but - for myself - I know I'm not tracking enough aspects or varying my location enough for all the gauges that his lifestyle accommodates. I will, however, take this inspiration to my own projects, where I've been more apt to use canvas than svn.
[+] [-] sixQuarks|11 years ago|reply
[+] [-] computerslol|11 years ago|reply
Having spent some time in the explorer section, what I see is something pretty, but unreadable. After the novelty of the interface choices fades, it's about as engaging as an XML document. There's no story here, no human element. I am seeing some interesting ideas and uses of space wasted displaying useless data. The experience is disjointed, the navigation is not intuitive, the page does weird things on scroll, and it doesn't work in IE11 (which is more offensive to me than it likely is to most of his audience - I switched to chrome to play with this).
If I were looking through this as a portfolio piece, I would be impressed with the technical elements of the design, a bit put-off by the usability problems, and confused (and a little upset) as to why a record of travel to 72 cities is presented in such a dehumanized manner.
[+] [-] at-fates-hands|11 years ago|reply
I like at the end of part 1 where his buddy texts him and asks him if he wants to go to Hong Kong and to meet in 5 hours at SFO.
Must be nice. . .
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