Re:Atlas – a platform for charts and data
by lucideer on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:46AM
(#11675765)
The design is nice enough, but the UX is awful, and pretty much for only one reason: search.
It seems to be a site listing charts, stats, data. Scrolling down or using the "Explore" nav item top-left works fine for browsing.
Search seems to be a secondary feature that is a simple keyword search on site content (the kind of site search that's usually subtle and off to one side), as opposed to a deliberately designed and targeted search on specific content facets. For some odd reason some designer has thought this should be front and centre despite being not a very good way to find anything specific. Adding the following CSS rule would massively improve the site:
It seems to be a site listing charts, stats, data. Scrolling down or using the "Explore" nav item top-left works fine for browsing.
Search seems to be a secondary feature that is a simple keyword search on site content (the kind of site search that's usually subtle and off to one side), as opposed to a deliberately designed and targeted search on specific content facets. For some odd reason some designer has thought this should be front and centre despite being not a very good way to find anything specific. Adding the following CSS rule would massively improve the site:
Otherwise, it seems nicely put together