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0 pointschrismorgan9mo ago0 comments

Look at each site of the day from the last week, and compare them to your average corporate site.

10th: no resemblance whatsoever, enormous unforced usability problems (e.g. scrolljacking).

9th: grossly unusable, no resemblance whatsoever. Exemplar of the worst excesses of a highly-ranked Awwwards site.

8th: a lot of resemblance, but the “interesting” parts are the bad parts.

7th: see 8th.

6th: superficial resemblance, but with far more problems due to being “interesting”.

5th: no real resemblance, bad scrolljacking problems.

4th: see 5th.

Long-known-to-be-harmful trends like scrolljacking and replacing the cursor (probably with a `backdrop-filter: invert(1)` circle, these days) seem to appear on well more than half of the Awwwards site; but they are fortunately rare on the web at large.

I’m not saying corporate sites are without problems—“yes, things are stupidly bad”—but the persistent stupidity that is scroll-linked entrance animations are a very different kettle of fish from the problems of a typical Awwwards site.

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potato-peeler9mo ago

From the blog -

> Instead we get auto-playing videos, excessive animations, aggressive pop-ups, and disappearing text. It's frustrating

I randomly pulled up stripe.com alternatives [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] - literally all of them have the same style of global menu, unwanted animations as you scroll, big text, big images, and I guarantee you none of them will work properly in an older browser, (try a 2 yr old mobile os).

[0] - https://tipalti.com/resources/learn/stripe-competitors-and-a... [1] - https://tipalti.com/en-eu/ [2] - https://trolley.com/pay/ [3] - https://www.paypal.com/nz/home [4] - https://www.payoneer.com/

Here are first 3 sites I pulled from producthunt - [5] [6] [7] - again literally the same structure and problems.

[5] - https://chroniclehq.com/ [6] - https://bubble.io [7] - https://wegic.ai/

The author clearly mentions this as a problem, just too many animations, for no reason at all. Are you telling me these weren't inspired from awwwards?

Design has gone to the gutters - material design/windows 11 design/liquid glass design. All of them are sacrificing usability over unwanted animations.

I seriously miss the days of blackberry and nokia. Usability was paramount those days.

> Long-known-to-be-harmful trends like scrolljacking and replacing the cursor ... seem to appear on well more than half of the Awwwards site; but they are fortunately rare on the web at large

Give it some time my friend, it wont take long [https://design.google/]

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