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Posted by shawkash in
22 Jul 2005 — 6:48pm
22 Jul 2005 — 6:48pm
While I was suerfing, I found this strange site. And I thought you may like to discuss this new way.
http://www.dontclick.it
Do you think that one day we will surf the internet without useing our hands at all?
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22 Jul 2005 — 7:30pm
I think there is a lot of potential for something like this. Of course, the current set of interface design theory would have to morph. 2 thumbs up. Thoroughly enjoyable.
22 Jul 2005 — 9:33pm
What about right clicking to bring up menus? What about click and drag for selections? Within the context of this site, which requires only simple navigation, no clicking is ok. But I think that so long as we have to drag mice about rather than do everything through the keyboard (like in the old days) because it adds functionality which reduces the amount of stressful wrist movements with the mouse that can make carpal tunnel problems happen. This is why I personally prefer the greater comfort of my tablet, despite the fact that it takes up most of my desk!
23 Jul 2005 — 4:30am
I am useing tablet also, it is better in navgiation
24 Jul 2005 — 2:40am
Great site, a very interesting concept.
2Nepenthe: dragging can be easily reilzed within the idea (e.g. you hold cursor over the obejct you've got to drag for 5 secs, then it sticks to the cursor and moves till you cursor remains still for 5 secs). The major issue here is usability.
Speaking of tablets, do you use the tablet's pen for plain surfing and navigation through software windows? I prefer the tablet's mouse with mine, using pen only in Photoshop.
24 Jul 2005 — 8:22am
It's a very interesting concept, but it's all Flash and there are no unique URLs per page or area, which runs counter to many of the underlying concepts of the web and accessibility in the first place.
But judged as an interactive concept alone, it's intriguing. I find all of the movement and reconfiguration to be a bit much, and the information density would require a lot of handling and segmenting so an errant mouse hit wouldn't send the user flying through the site.
This all sounds negative, but I do like it.
25 Jul 2005 — 10:11am
It's a nice idea. I agree with Chris...too much Flash. Too many websites do this and make it difficult to navigate their site. Like Chris was saying, with no unique URLs you can't hit the back button and go to information that you were just looking at. As a guy who gets "mouse cramps" on his hand pretty frequently, I'd love to see an interface that just used keyboard commands. Sometimes I hate "meeces to pieces."
25 Jul 2005 — 4:20pm
There is some opinions as I see, let's speak about the line which say the site is full of flash: no unique URL. I think this opinion is true. But I think if we think of future of web to make it like a huge multimedia web.. then this site will be a good move.
The site was speaking about to use click or not to use click, it looks like how scientists think in planes, that they try these days to make the driver of the plane drive it with his head only, I saw a documentary in Discovery Science about that case, which reflects that they are moving forward in this technology in solid steps. Let me say this site is very good as a source for designer who work on flash as web or as CD that it is not necessary to make all your buttons click able! What if you made a button some place in an interactive CD or site working by rolling over your courser on it? It may do a strange effect.
Sorry for speaking a lot, but let me declare things by graphics. I made here a small experiment to describe what I mean, this may be used as a surprise for the person who suppose to click.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/20981312/
Surprised ?
I saw a file like that in past, by someone I know in channel flash I guess while I was learning Macromedia Flash in 1999, I just made something like it to show you.
26 Jul 2005 — 9:05am
"But I think if we think of future of web to make it like a huge multimedia web.. "
Can you say more about what this means?
28 Jul 2005 — 8:25am
I think like any complex thing the man is trying to make it more simpler, like every machine has developing every day.. I think one day the web will be all some kind of haveing multimedia like the CDs to be more fun.