Just in terms of the user experience, I found the implementation awful. I'm using chrome and if I use my mouse wheel to scroll, I get an undocumented feature: row upon row of skittles menus. Even without scrolling, there is no way to move the menu and it blocks out a large section of the page, and just reminds me of an annoying popup that I'd like to dismiss, but can't!
I also found it very invasive that they would show a 'hold your horses' dialog requesting my birth date. Whatever happened to progressive engagement? There's nothing on this wikipedia site that would be harmful for people of any age to see, so there's no reason for that - from a user's perspective. Now from marketing's, that's another story.... Courtney Jordan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joel Laumans Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Skittles Branding I followed the whole Skittles / Modernista hype on Twitter a couple days ago, and I can't say that I am as enthusiastic about it as everyone else. Most of the reactions I saw flying by were similar to: "Wow, this is really great!" "Great! Finally a company that let's the people represent them" "Great implementation of using social media to define your brand!" I however am far more skeptical about the new site. I think the concept of letting your users define your brand is great, however I think the implementation is terrible. For us (interaction designers, new media experts, and so on) the site is great, we are familiar with these tools (such as Twitter and Wikipedia) and the concepts behind them. However, I think the average Skittles.com visitor will be very confused when visiting the site. The last thing I would expect when going to skittles.com is to see twitter.com. What do you think? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39555 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
