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The most beautifully designed interview ever

16 points by heatherpayne 14y ago

misnome 14y ago
Is this thread title a joke? Or Sarcasm? I'm on an 11" air screen, and I feel like I'm looking through a very thin Letterbox, meagrely scraping together a few words of meaning before having to re-adjust my position to get more of the picture. In fact, scrolling down past the title, and the header image, leaves one state of the page display to nothing but a half-cutoff flowchart, the bottom of a chin, and the rest of the picture is taken up by cleavage. Probably not the intended effect. (Edit: Like So: http://xgkkp.com/images/screenshot_mostbeautifulpage.png http://xgkkp.com/images/screenshot_mostbeautifulpage.png. I'm not going to read a page called "Women And Tech" that thinks that is a good way to target their apparently intended demographic)
- DavidAdams 14y ago
  It looks great on a big screen, though. So I guess the title should be renamed beautiful site that looks great on a big monitor but cramped on a little one.
  - misnome 14y ago
    It looks like it scales to the current width, so presumably a very wide window on a big monitor would look just as bad?
    - rpicard 14y ago
      It looks great full screen on my 1440x900. I'm not sure if that qualifies as big though.
    - lmm 14y ago
      It looks horrific on my 1920x1080. Enormous scary pictures, giant text that's still only taking up half the screen. I hate design.
- heatherpayne 14y ago
  The title wasn't a joke. I love the way the interview is presented. The team clearly put a lot of time into it. I especially love the collage they created of a bunch of the women who have attended Ladies Learning Code workshops. It was really unexpected, and I was blown away when I saw it yesterday morning.
speeder 14y ago
Yes, gorgeous girls... And annoying design... I quickly scrolled down to see if anytime it would stop with the annoying stupid pictures, but it did not... And I did not enjoyed the pictures either, even thought the women on them were pretty, the effect itself was overly distracting. The effect IS interesting, but I did not read it, neither saw the pictures, in fact the only thing it made me to do was waste my time commenting on how bad it is.
raldi 14y ago
Please click the "Guidelines" link at the bottom of this page and reread the section about headlines.
bradleyland 14y ago
Design is not just how something looks, but how it works, and this design fails miserably in that regard. Scrolling with a mouse wheel is just one of the ways you can browse through a web page. I'm a chronic page-downer; I use the spacebar to do so. I find it very difficult to track text that is moving, so I prefer to move the page one "page" at a time, reorient myself, then read everything I can see. I kept paging up and down in an attempt to figure out why the page was jumping around and I was only seeing parts of photos. It wasn't until I reached for my mouse and scrolled up and down repeatedly that I figured out what was going on. The "oh cool" image reveal effect isn't a good enough trade off for me to continue using a site that implements this style. I hope it doesn't catch on.

16 points by heatherpayne 14y ago

Is this thread title a joke? Or Sarcasm? I'm on an 11" air screen, and I feel like I'm looking through a very thin Letterbox, meagrely scraping together a few words of meaning before having to re-adjust my position to get more of the picture. In fact, scrolling down past the title, and the header image, leaves one state of the page display to nothing but a half-cutoff flowchart, the bottom of a chin, and the rest of the picture is taken up by cleavage. Probably not the intended effect. (Edit: Like So: http://xgkkp.com/images/screenshot_mostbeautifulpage.png http://xgkkp.com/images/screenshot_mostbeautifulpage.png. I'm not going to read a page called "Women And Tech" that thinks that is a good way to target their apparently intended demographic)

DavidAdams 14y ago
It looks great on a big screen, though. So I guess the title should be renamed beautiful site that looks great on a big monitor but cramped on a little one.
- misnome 14y ago
  It looks like it scales to the current width, so presumably a very wide window on a big monitor would look just as bad?
  - rpicard 14y ago
    It looks great full screen on my 1440x900. I'm not sure if that qualifies as big though.
  - lmm 14y ago
    It looks horrific on my 1920x1080. Enormous scary pictures, giant text that's still only taking up half the screen. I hate design.
heatherpayne 14y ago
The title wasn't a joke. I love the way the interview is presented. The team clearly put a lot of time into it. I especially love the collage they created of a bunch of the women who have attended Ladies Learning Code workshops. It was really unexpected, and I was blown away when I saw it yesterday morning.

speeder 14y ago

Yes, gorgeous girls... And annoying design... I quickly scrolled down to see if anytime it would stop with the annoying stupid pictures, but it did not... And I did not enjoyed the pictures either, even thought the women on them were pretty, the effect itself was overly distracting. The effect IS interesting, but I did not read it, neither saw the pictures, in fact the only thing it made me to do was waste my time commenting on how bad it is.

raldi 14y ago

Please click the "Guidelines" link at the bottom of this page and reread the section about headlines.

bradleyland 14y ago

Design is not just how something looks, but how it works, and this design fails miserably in that regard. Scrolling with a mouse wheel is just one of the ways you can browse through a web page. I'm a chronic page-downer; I use the spacebar to do so. I find it very difficult to track text that is moving, so I prefer to move the page one "page" at a time, reorient myself, then read everything I can see. I kept paging up and down in an attempt to figure out why the page was jumping around and I was only seeing parts of photos. It wasn't until I reached for my mouse and scrolled up and down repeatedly that I figured out what was going on. The "oh cool" image reveal effect isn't a good enough trade off for me to continue using a site that implements this style. I hope it doesn't catch on.