Re: this is a modern way to present a project

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> at first I was a bit shocked by your reaction. Then I thought that you just 
> might have the impression, I was going to criticize your work. This wasn't the 
> intention of my message. I just happened to come across that elementary os web
sorry if I gave that impression, I didn't took it personally! I 
genuinely didn't like what I saw on that page, for the content and style 
of how things were written on that website and how the navigation was 
organized. Perhaps I sparked up too much, because just a couple of weeks 
ago I analyzed a similar site with another person and it took me some 
time to demonstrate that what at first looks nice and simple is actually 
very terrible for any further navigation other than the first glance.
I wrongly inserted negative comments about "elementary OS" itself, that 
was out of place, although, I state, on the positive site, the character 
of the product and the website are very well matched, which is good!
> page and liked the light and simple style of it. Yeah, it looks appleish, but 
> also with a different design style it would look not to crammed. I thought 
> about how this was done: presenting an appetizer using a pleasing look 
> (obviously the Apple look is pleasing to a lot of people) and so make people 
> look closer and scroll, the scrolling then reveals more appetizers which link 
> to the real stuff. They did avoid cramming to much information into a small 
> space by doing so. I found this idea inspirational and wanted to share it. 
> Maybe I should have explained this better at first hand.
What you write is correct, the concept of not cramming everything on the 
first page is correct. However, if you think the current webpage, with 
all the critics it gets, tries to follow that concept! It just fails to 
"trigger" your interest probably.
> Today I found an insightful article which is about an analysis on how users 
> interact with web sites. trigger words seem to play a very important role in 
> this:
>
> http://www.uie.com/articles/trigger_words/
Very correct, I think the same. A problem is however, that people get 
triggered by different words and different people get different reactions!
When reading elementary os's page, all the empty marketing fluff, 
triggered me negative reactions. Other people might just get bored or 
even get scared when reading other more technical words! Since we have 
both aspects in GS, it is not easy.

Too many emotions are flowing currently in this "website" discussion, I 
shall be more detached.

I will continue improving the design in GAP, also by taking inspiration 
about your "elementary os" page, I will attempt a thing I initially 
discarded.

I am also improving a bit of the GS site content in the meanwhile! Soon 
some news.

Riccardo