Just ‘Cause Apple Did It, Doesn’t Mean You Should
15.07.08Filed Under: Uncategorized
Ever since Apple gave us Cover Flow in iTunes, hordes of companies have deduced that thinking different means seeing different, mistakenly concluding that visual is the new textual, . Thanks to cover flow, useless sites have been created to browse online shopping, scrapbooks, and news. There’s nothing like judging news by its cover.
As if those weren’t slow and cumbersome enough, two more nightmare visual-browsing experiences surfaced recently and, since they’re similar, we thought we’d give you two-for-one. The two new sites, Search Me and FavThumbs, take your Search Results and your Del.icou.us bookmarks, respectively, and turn them into super-fun images. What makes anyone think that browsing web sites visually makes sense? Honestly, have you ever gone to Google and typed in “cheap apartments” and thought to yourself, “the description of what this site does is great, but if only I could look at it before committing to clicking.” And if you have, fuck you, you liar. If people wanted to browse their sites visually, do you think anyone would have ever visited My Space, You Tube or Digg?
While a cute idea for the minuscule amount of people who want to reminisce about the age of album art, cover flow has no place online. There’s nothing usable about it and no one thinks it’s fun. So, to anyone out there thinking people want to experience restaurant listings, plumbing services, flight booking or anything else by sliding from image to image, all we can is: Stop. Stop, right now. Back away from the computer all the way to the window and do all of us a favor by jumping out of it.
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