two many flaws to my taste, today I thought
I'll talk about one of them, It's the site
for the Hidden Heroes: http://www.hidden-heroes.net/
This site looks like a nice project for a stand-alone
computer, but in the web it doesn't deliver for a few reasons:
1) it Loads too slow, I shouldn't wait for a couple of minutes
for a website that doesn't contain at least 5 minutes of
streaming HD Video ! it takes about 5 minutes to load.
the loading is not interesting and the site won't save a cookie
or something to make itself load faster the next time, every
time you'll visit the site, it will make you wait !
2) it Loads too slow, I know I said it already, but they
made me wait twice so I'll bitch about it twice as well.
3) I shouldn't guess what I should do in the site, on the
web, every little thing that is not 100% clear might
scare off the costumers (surfers), and this site isn't clear
enough, they could play a "demo" version of what
I should do on the site or just tell me in popups but
I needed the direction, anyway they have a kind of
a "demo" of what to do after I already picked the
items and after the long Loadings which made me go
to another site in the meantime and I missed the demo,
with no way to replay it.
4) I don't get what's so heavy in this site that I had
to wait, the interface ? it's just cubes, I could program
the animation in flash so it would be no more than
40kb, may be 60kb with the pictures.
5) if I would do it myself, I wouldn't publish it before all
the little bugs are fixed, and even though it's an impressive
looking web-site, the little 'jump' whenever you reach your
product is really annoying me (at the end of the cube
rotation animation, the text jumps a bit, annoying, huh ?)
6) the interface is too linear for the design of the cubes,
it makes everything look too stiff, I think they should
have found a way to make it lighter, like make me drag
the cubes at anytime, even if it didn't load properly yet,
if I drag towards the next item, it doesn't switch
to it automatically.
They should prevent me the feeling that this all interface
is just one big video and I'm just browsing between the clips.
I loved the design, the interface still needs improvements.
