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Site Design: Greater Than Or Equal To (greaterthanorequalto.net)
over 9 years ago from Matt Achariam, Intent Renderer
38 comments
Kyle Conrad, over 9 years ago
I am pretty much in love with this.
Jim Silverman, over 9 years ago
this is a great technique if you want visitors to miss and/or not read important content.
Alan Trotter, over 9 years ago
My work-around for this was not including any important content.
well played.
Lete Pacey, over 9 years ago
I actually read this more diligently than most copy I come across.
Paul Macgregor, over 9 years ago
I actually got much further with this than I would have if it was just a paragraph of text.
Also - brilliant response Alan.
Louis-André Labadie, over 9 years ago
Or if you only want to be contacted by people who are actually interested in what you do.
Reading time and "visitor" count quickly become vanity metrics, especially in the face of a solution that gives you enough leads with little false positives (assuming this is the case here).
Alex Montague, over 9 years ago
Can't. Click. Them. All. Trying. So. Hard.
Jonathan Levy, over 9 years ago
Makes me crazy.
Casey Britt, over 9 years ago
Am I the only one that thinks this isn't brilliant? I gave up after a couple of clicks. Its just tedious and pointless imo. No offense to the creator.
David Simpson, over 9 years ago
Ya i'd have to agree, it is interesting and fun for a moment but I would assume you will have a high bounce rate from people not wanting to have to click and dig for this info.
David Sinclair, over 9 years ago
It's catering to a specific audience, one that happens to read.
I think it's a very clever display of writing skill and would likely go down really well with the intended audience.
Alex Ionescu, over 9 years ago
Agreed. It's interesting, but nothing more. In terms of actual design, not much to say. Well, more minimalistic than this would be a blank white page with a clickable dot in the center.
Jonathan Matthey, over 9 years ago
agreed... too much investment to click so many times for little pay off..
maybe rollovers ? or time based ?
Cecil Roth, over 9 years ago
I love how it unfolds. It's fitting for a writer to have a site like this.
Wesley Haines, over 9 years ago
this might be one of my favorite interactions i've ever seen.
Tom Reinert, over 9 years ago
this is how you do design. it works brilliantly, and seems so effortless. form, function, content – they got everything right.
D. Z., over 9 years ago (edited over 9 years ago )
Tom Wood, over 9 years ago (edited over 9 years ago )
SO great, it brings out the inner child in me and takes me back to a time when the internet was a wonder and these kinds of unknown experiences were what made it great.
Steven Reynolds, over 9 years ago
This is the internet in microcosm. You want more info, you click a link, it shows up.
I love it. It filters his audience and generates interest / user investment at the same time.
J Beckman, over 9 years ago Helped make the site responsive in no time flat: https://twitter.com/alantrotter/status/491984026165854208
Jonathan Cutrell, over 9 years ago
Well, don't do this, but... $("a").trigger("click");
Spencer Bomberman, over 9 years ago
I love the concept, but hate the interaction of having to search for the hidden link within each new fragment.
KQ Dreger, over 9 years ago
I found it forces me to read, which I think is part of his point.
Evan Brand, over 9 years ago
Me too, I couldn't stop reading because I wanted to click the next thing!
Which is fine, but unless I am missing something, there is no indication of which text to click next. So I wound up wildly moving the cursor over the text until it turned to a pointer, then slowly figured out which word was actually the link.
Wait, can you not see the underline? Clickable words should be underlined :( What browser &c. are you using?
/ Okay, so it seems to be a problem with IE 9 and earlier. I guess at some point I saw that it worked on IE 10 and 11, and thought 'Haha I don't care about anyone with an older browser than that, those hypothetical people deserve all they get', but you're a real, non-hypothetical person and I've made things difficult for you, I'm sorry, I'll try and fix it.
// It should/might work now?
I am actually using Chrome 36.0.1985.125. Looking at the CSS, it seems that the background-position is 5px off. Setting it to "0 21px" works for me.
But, I tested this in Safari, and it works there like a charm! And now I see what everyone else sees! Great stuff. :-)
Deny Khoung, over 9 years ago Blue underline to indicate an external link—very elegant.
Alexander Blagochevsky, over 9 years ago
I say to need to get rid of everything under "Hello" link. It's pointless and confusing who you're talking to. Everything else is good.
Angel Colberg, over 9 years ago
Very clever!
Ernest Ojeh, over 9 years ago It has been updated & links have been underlined. I think it's better now.
Marcel Christianis, over 9 years ago
This is genius. Never thought of presenting narative this way before. Love love love! :o
Diego Lafuente, over 9 years ago
I really liked the website. Clean, pure.
Mikus Riekstins, over 9 years ago
I think the site targets its audience very well. Simple curiosity driven navigation that unfolds as you explore.
mewo a, over 9 years ago This is perfect, made my morning.
Matt Smadner, over 9 years ago Very original, great idea. I bet your 'on site' time is insane.
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