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http://theymakeapps.com

by ddrouin • 16 years ago

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theymakeapps.com

cfpg• 16 years ago

Amazing design.

pkjain• 16 years ago

I agree

MtL• 16 years ago

Oh my god what a horrible design, and total lack of usability.

bprater• 16 years ago

Sheesh folks. Rather than the jumping on the 'its-abnormal', maybe we could find some innovative uses for this kind of UI?

My first instinct: "oooh, this feels just like Picasa, very smooth scrolling, I could spend an hour flipping through photos like this."

tlrobinson• 16 years ago

Yes, but this site isn't for browsing photos.

n8agrin• 16 years ago

It doesn't scroll, you're not doing it wrong. It's kind of an interesting design idea, but my first instinct is that it's frustrating more than useful. Let me at least scroll using my mouse or my keys in a way similar with other web sites.

evancaine• 16 years ago

Innovative design. Terrible usability.

It breaks all the functionality you expect on a web page. It isn't clear where the hyperlinks are, mouse scroll doesn't work and I have to learn how to use this specific web page (!)

To get an idea of just what a mess it is, try browsing it with stylesheets disabled. The designers seem to have gone out of their way to create a poor flash-like interface without actually using flash.

dylanz• 16 years ago

I didn't mind the design, and loved the keyboard navigation.

basil• 16 years ago

Somewhat ironic that I cannot use the site in Mobile Safari.

Plugawy• 16 years ago

They need an app for that I'm afraid...

grumpyfart• 16 years ago

Awesome! To able scroll with the mouse wheel you need go through the whole menu, figure out that the "switch" is about scrolling, swear quite a lot and switch it. Revelation(!) <-- as you see I don't need a sarcastic font, I can just type it and in this context it's plain sarcastic .

Reinventing usability FTW! (and yes still sarcastic...)

prawn• 16 years ago

Sortfolio for apps. Smart (save for the site usability).

If you're bored and can't think of something to build over a weekend, hook up with a designer and emulate the Sortfolio concept for a particular niche. I've been looking at building an engine that can be rolled out across various industries, starting with things like weddings and landscaping/garden design. Any visually oriented industry would work IMO.

harisenbon• 16 years ago

Nice design, but their desire to reinvent usability at the cost of removing every standard method of interfacing with a site really puts me off.

If I wanted an app designed, I would want it to look good as well as be user-friendly. While the site speaks loads of their design capabilities, they pretty much shot themselves in the foot with that interface scheme.

I'll be looking for someone who understands usability to make my apps.

Tichy• 16 years ago

If I hadn't read the comments here, I would have given up because it wouldn't scroll. I did not look for the instructions and did not notice them.

I thought good design is meant to make instructions superfluous...

opeyre• 16 years ago

Guys, it's olivier from TheyMakeApps.

Thanks a bunch for your feedback.

I don't believe we're trying to re-invent the wheel with the keyboard navigation mode. It was more of an Easter egg. The first time a user reaches the site they have to choose between the 2 navigation modes before exploring the listings.

But we heard you and we're working on dropping that step and making scroll-wheel the default behavior.

Regarding the iPhone version, stats show that less than 3% of the users use their mobile to visit the site so we decided to focus for now on adding other platforms for now (Android, Blackberry, Palm). Switching to scroll-wheel mode by default will make the site more compatible with mobile browsers too.

Don't hesitate to contact me: @opeyre

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