Another of Hugh’s spot-on masterpieces:
It resonates as last weekend I was fuming over a flash site that left me frustrated and incredulous because of its slowness, non-usability and clunkiness. I am sure it has cost the company a fortune. It has that smug look of an agency well paid. I only got sucked into user hostile vortex because I was actually interested in the product. Well, not any more.
Alex Singleton
on May 1st, 2007
@ 13:52 pm:
Entirely Flash-driven sites are a nightmare. Very few people manage to use Flash in a way that improves the user experience instead of pissing everyone off.
fjfjfj
on May 1st, 2007
@ 20:46 pm:
That site is a nightmare.
Math
on Aug 23rd, 2007
@ 11:27 am:
It’s not a flash driven site at all…there is a flash banner and that’s all. The application to create the watch is in Java. For information, this site won the award in 2004 of the best swiss web site.
Personnaly i like the site and their watches
Adriana
on Aug 23rd, 2007
@ 11:28 am:
Oh well, Java then. And it still sucks.
Math
on Aug 23rd, 2007
@ 11:34 am:
You are part of the 2% who don’t have a browser that support Java application, so….the question would be. Does your computer sucks?
Adriana
on Aug 23rd, 2007
@ 11:38 am:
Oh, I have a browser that supports Java alright (the best Firefox money can get, dahling), it’s just that the site is badly designed and very user unfriendly. No awards can remedy that.
Alec
on Aug 23rd, 2007
@ 12:08 pm:
@Math: I don’t know if you are seeing a different website to me, but when I right-click on the “Create A Man’s Watch” Link, it (rudely) opens-up a full-screen popup page laden with slow-moving animated graphics, and if you right-click on *that* page it will tell you:
About OpenLaszlo
About Adobe FlashPlayer9
…so maybe there’s a teeny bit of Java in there, or maybe in the backend – I dunno – but there is certainly a honking great pile of flash in the user-interface somewhere, but it’s both rude, and a pain to navigate.
As for a award for best Swiss website, well maybe it’s pretty but it’s sure as hell not practical. Funny, that’s not what I expect from the Swiss.
Jackie Danicki
on Aug 25th, 2007
@ 4:08 am:
I think mentioning awards in support of arguing that a website is not rubbish should be the new Godwin’s Law…