The click-free webpage
I’ve been interested in interaction design for quite a while, and when I came across DontClickIt, I was impressed. I’ve seen all types of interactive applications, but I’ve never seen a clickless design feel so seamless. Check it out yourself:
What I like most about this, is that instead of just showing us a new method of interaction, it tries to challenge our current default method of ‘click interaction’ and have us question whether it is necessary.
Although it is debatable to which extent a ‘clickless interaction’ is functional and ideal, it is nice to see people challenging our default methods of interaction, and showing us something new.
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Wow I’m impressed. It works surprisingly well. You’ll have to get used to it for a couple seconds first but once you get going it just feels so seamingless. First everything seems to fly around but that’s because users make relatively large mousegestures (Which is an effect of the clicking interaction where this would have no consequences).
Onces you start moving your hand more subtle it just works so well, and also because of these more subtle movements everything feels a lot easier. I see great potential here.
How much I like the whole idea of having a clickfree design…getting to the middle of menu’s makes it kinda tricky, especially with this big hand/mouse/wire cursor they make me use…
I do believe there is a big opening here, and what they did on that website is just the start of something that could be much more awesome.
They”ve, and with they I mean Apple and Opera, have been fucking around with gestures for ages to make clicking absolete. But these virtual dances are too hard to remember for most of us.
Why not have something in between, like the ease that users use the multi touch touchscreen on the iPhone, but then something with the mouse. We’ve seen it in many flash sliders, the closer the mouse to the edge, the faster it slides….something in that manner, the way you move your mouse is the way the site goes.
Something else then actually moving your mouse to a menu and hoping for the best it selects what you want.
This site is really cool to look at and is much easier to use than I expected. I am guessing as its build in flash that its not particularly search engine friendly though?
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