Interesting interface design

Uncomfortable is a good word.
It isn't the navigation and not-clicking that cause it for me. It is
the way the menus and text swirl nto view with some of the angled
shapes that then form the background color fields.
I wonder if that transition were more subtle if it would be more
effective.
The first couple of times I wanted to click out of a reaction to the
design and not because I wanted to click.
It was more a clicking in visual self-defense.

Jennifer

On Sep 15, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Philippos Savvides wrote:

> http://www.dontclick.it/
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> Kind of uncomfortable in the beginning. Any thoughts?
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:48:23 -0700, Philippos wrote:

>http://www.dontclick.it/
>
>Kind of uncomfortable in the beginning. Any thoughts?

I don't find it uncofortable, but there aren't any cues to let you
know what you'll get a reaction to (i.e. the equivalent of more
content on click), and what you won't. I don't miss clicking per se, I
miss knowing what's just static, and what's a hotspot. The advantage
of clicking as well is that you are making a statement that you want
the new content, not just that you happen to have moved themouse
there.
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I liked this interface. Not that we have to get rid of clicking. For a
button that is still a very good interaction.

The experiments show a few nice complimentary interactions to make
information and functionality accessible while keeping all parts in a
logical context.

- Yohan

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We are so condition for so many years with mouse clicking to confirm our
action. Without mouse click it doesn't give user the confirmation status of
his/her action or selection.

Agree with Kumar, it might be more suitable for gestural inputs like VR,
immersive environment, where you use hand gesture to move things.

Donny Chan
UX Researcher

I like it as a concept, but I don't think it will be usable for the
web anytime soon. The navigation elements move avay from the original
location. I wantet to click "The click ergonomy" and ended up on the
Click history page.

With some research and testing on mouse movements from element to
element it will become a lot better. Right now it requires a clear
path between all the various navigation elements.

Any thoughts regarding how to put a no click interface to use?

Andreas

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Agree. Statement may be true: clicking is not necessary
at all; but it's similiar problem to the steering wheel on the
right side - convention we have learned to and which cannot
be breaken effortless. Click means "confirm, proceed, make
a decision, take on" - and personally I like to have a right to
make this decision or make it not, even in the last moment
(i.e. when mouse pointer is already over the clickable area).

Greetings,
Kordian Piotr Klecha

2008/9/17 FoongYeen Chan <chan.foongyeen at gmail.com>

We are so condition for so many years with mouse clicking to confirm our
> action. Without mouse click it doesn't give user the confirmation status of
> his/her action or selection.
>
> Agree with Kumar, it might be more suitable for gestural inputs like VR,
> immersive environment, where you use hand gesture to move things.
>
>
> Donny Chan
> UX Researcher
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I'm not trying to kill the discussion, but thought people may be
interested in knowing that this was brought up at least twice before
on the list. You can see relevant threads here:

September 7, 2006: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=11530
September 17, 2007: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=20549

Who wants to volunteer to post it in September of 2009? ;)

Continue on...

Jack

Jack L. Moffett
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Good designers relentlessly generate lots of ideas
and open-mindedly consider alternative solutions.
At no time are good designers frightened to entertain
a crazy, competing, or uncomfortable idea.

- Karl Ulrich

Good Points:
1. It was interesting way of going through information

Bad Points:
1. If response after gesture takes too long, user doesn't know if he
did the right thing.
2. Two of the tests failed to load in my browser and there was no way
for me to know what to do next, because there was no feedback and no
way for me to tell the system that the test didn't load.
3. Why SHIFT+Tab and not just Tab. Actually I did use SHIFT+Tab and it
jumped but as soon as I started typing, it jumped back because my
mouse was still hovering over the first field. Device conflict?

Funny thing was, that when I left the site I found myself doing mouse-
overs on other sites and waiting for something to happen. :)

As we are discussing about donclick.com, i think this one also might end up
in some interesting discussion.
Using gestures to navigate through the website. (webcam is needed for
gesture based interaction)

Here you are.
http://www.hrp.com/

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Matt Anderson <matt.anderson at citrix.com>wrote:

> My thoughts exactly. Mouse targeting is far more difficult. An
> inverse test to this project might be one that minimizes moving the
> mouse by adding snap functionality to links.
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> http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=32969#32999
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i was introduced to this website (dontclick.it) a couple of years ago.
It felt uncomfortable because it was not the norm to navigate the way
this website was constructed. It was innovative at the time it was
launched. A solution to probably where touch screens were not as
famous as they are today. However, this interface provided me with an
understanding that the mouse behaved intuitively. Strange thing for a
mouse to do! ;-).

It did make me sit up and take notice but if the transition effect
were less busy the interface would have worked even better. As i see
the transition confined within a space made me feel uncomfortable
while navigation.

The concept "don't click" rocks, only that it needs to be executed
smart.

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