SIGIA-L Mail Archives Subscribe/Unsubscribe | Home


Printer-Friendly Version


SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: [Sigia-l] Horizontal Scroll & Po

RE: [Sigia-l] Horizontal Scroll & Portfolios (easier on the eyes)

From: Heller, David (david.heller_at_documentum.com)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 02:32:42 EDT


 http://www.evian.com/home.htm

This is a flash site that uses a horizontal scroll that I find one of the
few reasons to use one--a timeline.

You need to click on Origins to find the history timeline.

YES! there are tons of other UX problems w/ this design.

-- dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Timo
To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
Sent: 5/26/2002 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Horizontal Scroll & Portfolios (easier on the eyes)

This has been a common thing to do for designers portfolios for a while,
here is an old UK site with a more advanced concept:
http://www.aeriform.co.uk/v3.0/main3.0.html

For those who havent seen, horizontal, parallax scrolling has become
highly
popular for Flash kids as a result kioken using it in these sites:
http://www.barneys.com/
http://www.motown.com/

Also, since you mention a traditional catalogue, there seems to be a
trend
in recent design magazines to use a page format (which I think is a BAD
thing):
http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/dodge2/
http://www.thisisamagazine.com/ [nasty java resize]

Timo

-- 
Timo Arnall | http://www.elasticspace.com

Derek R said

> I thought the use of horizontal scrolling here (as a form for > portfolios) was more useful than the standard vertical rule. I didn't > pay much attention to the rest of the site which I did not particularly > enjoy. > > Since it is a corporate portfolio, I don't mind downloading all the > examples at once. Too bad the labels are small, yes. > > Curious the designer's site atheistic is so gaud awful compared to the > portfolio examples (just a contributor?), but I did notice the > affectionate use of homepage/content-pages juxtaposition to create a > *holistic image* for each example -- something most of the online > portfolios I have seen forget to do (usually just a single screenshot > which focuses on surface rather than depth), which is why I wanted to > point out the site, the horizontal walking-by-browsing feel, in concert > with particular holistic arrangements, like window-shopping, is > something which easily waddles over to the 'e-commerce version' of > portfolios -- the product list. > > I think this page demonstrates an advantage in motion for portfolios > (which finds its results between your ears) since, as humans, we are > more suited and comfortable with walking sideways like a classic Sears > catalogue (balanced, fluid-between-your-ears), rather than up 'n' down ?

------------ When replying, please TRIM YOUR POST as much as possible.

PLAIN TEXT, please; NO Attachments

ASIST SIG IA: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIA/index.html _______________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list Sigia-l_at_asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l

------------ When replying, please TRIM YOUR POST as much as possible.

PLAIN TEXT, please; NO Attachments

ASIST SIG IA: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIA/index.html _______________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list Sigia-l_at_asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Sun Nov 23 2003 - 22:55:14 EST

 


www.info-arch.org
| www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIA

Subscribe/Unsubscribe | Home