<story><title>Building Better Interfaces with SVG (2015)</title><url>http://slides.com/sarasoueidan/building-better-interfaces-with-svg#/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text>&lt;i&gt;all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like to call this trend &amp;quot;Flanders Computing&amp;quot; -- where developers and designers increasingly create obnoxiously friendly websites and apps that treat you as if they&amp;#x27;re your diddly-doodly buddy-ol-pal.&lt;p&gt;A recent Windows 10 install told me &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;re happy you&amp;#x27;re here!&amp;quot;  Who exactly is &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; and why are they trying to be all buddy-buddy so soon?  I assume the market research told them that this was the best start screen, but good grief is all the wiggly-wobbly buddy-ol-pal stuff so friggin annoying.  It&amp;#x27;s like forced intimacy that can&amp;#x27;t be reciprocated, which feels weird.</text></item><item><author>tbabb</author><text>I have no horse in the SVG vs. CSS race, but: Web designers, please, do not think that all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion) are a positive for user experience.&lt;p&gt;It might be fine for showing technical flexibility, but they do not add to interaction; they are distracting, slow down responsiveness, and worse, are non-standard and unexpected. I hope this kind of stuff doesn&amp;#x27;t catch on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endgame</author><text>Similarly, when I sign into slack at work, I am presented with silly little messages from my &amp;quot;friends at slack&amp;quot;. Why is the empty set writing me messages? The people who work on slack are probably nice, but I don&amp;#x27;t use the &amp;quot;friend&amp;quot; label on people who I&amp;#x27;ve never met.</text></comment>
<story><title>Building Better Interfaces with SVG (2015)</title><url>http://slides.com/sarasoueidan/building-better-interfaces-with-svg#/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text>&lt;i&gt;all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like to call this trend &amp;quot;Flanders Computing&amp;quot; -- where developers and designers increasingly create obnoxiously friendly websites and apps that treat you as if they&amp;#x27;re your diddly-doodly buddy-ol-pal.&lt;p&gt;A recent Windows 10 install told me &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;re happy you&amp;#x27;re here!&amp;quot;  Who exactly is &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; and why are they trying to be all buddy-buddy so soon?  I assume the market research told them that this was the best start screen, but good grief is all the wiggly-wobbly buddy-ol-pal stuff so friggin annoying.  It&amp;#x27;s like forced intimacy that can&amp;#x27;t be reciprocated, which feels weird.</text></item><item><author>tbabb</author><text>I have no horse in the SVG vs. CSS race, but: Web designers, please, do not think that all the super-annoying gimmicky animations (rippling text inputs, wiggly text, excessively stretch-and-squashing motion) are a positive for user experience.&lt;p&gt;It might be fine for showing technical flexibility, but they do not add to interaction; they are distracting, slow down responsiveness, and worse, are non-standard and unexpected. I hope this kind of stuff doesn&amp;#x27;t catch on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andai</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webcomicname.tumblr.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;154211839894&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;webcomicname.tumblr.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;154211839894&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>