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man, this is strange

http://www.dontclick.it/

an experiment in user interface design.

basically, you dont click any links. just hovering over them open them.

see how long you can navigate around it, without feeling the urge to click

its very disorienting too - stuff "just happens" without you realising your cursor triggered it.

interesting

i think we've had this before. but i agree -it is very disorientating.

Ew.

in fact it's fair to say i don't see the point and don't like it at all. they'll have us back to pre-mouse days next.

It's fancy, though IIRC as Laz said the previous time we had something like this, it's not very accesible for certain people...

I'm deeply disturbed now.

too f**king clever for its own good.

if you ask me.

which no-one did.

The 'bozo' designer I work with (the teacher's favourite, of course) insisted that we use up our graphics software/hardware budget on Intuos 3 Graphic Tablests for both of us, I said I'd like to try one out first. When I was in hospital, she steamrollered it through. We now have two, rather expensive cardboard boxes gathering dust.
I really can't get to grips with a graphics tablet and stylus, even the 4 button/scroll wheel mouse freaks me out!

the above is all too similar an experience

James Blast wrote: I really can't get to grips with a graphics tablet and stylus, even the 4 button/scroll wheel mouse freaks me out!

You are a Mac-user... even a two-button mouse gives you nightmares, James!

IZ.

I have no arguments there IZ

MacUser mantra - 1 button good, 2 buttons bad

Iz: :notworthy:

I didn't find it that weird to be honest. The thing that annoys me from a programmer's perspective, however, is the need to create your own method of confirmation. A click doesn't generally happen by accident, whereas a mouse-over can. Clicks can easily confirm actions, but it was evident in the demo that mouse-overs require extra user input to make something happen. What was once "Move -> Click" becomes "Move -> Await Confirmation -> Move" which requires more concentration and adds an extra step to the process in question, making it, imho, a bad usability decision.

Didn't like it. Didn't like the way a window opened and covered the menu, then when click on the menu to bring it to the foreground it tells you you're a w@nker.

Two buttons good, scroll wheel even better.

hallucienate wrote:Two buttons good, scroll wheel even better.

Back & Forward buttons and other stuff: Heaven

Obviousman wrote:

hallucienate wrote:Two buttons good, scroll wheel even better.

Back & Forward buttons and other stuff: Heaven

Two buttons, scroll wheel, All-In-One Gestures plugin for Firefox (functions such as forward, back, open tab, open new window, etc, all done by holding down right-click and moving the mouse).

Better than Heaven.