Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign)
apsurd: On first open, I immediately thought "whoa, I'm lost."
Then I thought... "way too much effort to parse this information."Of course its almost surely because I am so used to the HN simplicity and directness. But it is indeed hard to parse for me. Lists are very very friendly. I find myself being able to parse HN very fast, starting from the top left, reading each listed line until it loses my interest, and then proceeding. Very hard to do on your site since much of my effort is ignoring the design aspect and also the fact that I have to scan so wide horizontally does not help.Much easier for my mind to know that each line is its own concept, and a newline refreshes the concept. With your box model, my mind has to consciously give meaning to the structure and boxes. Same thing for hierarchy. There is an assumed, implied, and very natural order with a list. Not so with your box model.Perhaps I'm just thinking too much but for usability, your site gets a "too much effort." and I'd much prefer HN.Of course as you may have guessed, I'm not a design guy.
I can appreciate and love good design, but my take is that design should complement the goal in not only an aesthetic but utilitarian manner.I feel there is just too much benefit in using the HN list model to go with anything else.