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Re:Annual survey of book recommendations by jasode on Sunday December 10, 2017 @10:33AM (#15891814)
A side comment about the nausea-inducing motion background. The Bloomberg story credits shown at the bottom include: "Design and development: James Singleton"

When you go to James' website showing off his portfolio[1], you see the websites he creates have busy motion and pulsating colors. Apparently, there are lots of media buyers that like that and keep paying for his services. (E.g. a previous Bloomberg feature with the disembodied head of Elon Musk bouncing around and a flashing "CLICK TO ENTER".[2])

It's definitely a different design aesthetic from Mike Bostock (d3.js) of The New York Times.

[1] http://jamespants.com/

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/

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Re:Annual survey of book recommendations by jetcata on Sunday December 10, 2017 @11:24AM (#15892072)
The moving background made me motion sick, had to leave the page before i could finish
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Re:Annual survey of book recommendations by contingencies on Sunday December 10, 2017 @04:08PM (#15893508)
To give the designer the benefit of the doubt, it might be optimized for tablets or TVs or something. On a desktop, the combination of motion and content resizing with scrolling is fundamentally irksome.
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Re:Annual survey of book recommendations by prepend on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:38PM (#15900720)
I largely judge the design based on my device. It’s an iPhone and fairly common. If the design still makes me nauseous, I blame the designer. Perhaps it was designed for a tv or tablet or whatever, but they showed it to me.
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Re:Annual survey of book recommendations by culot on Sunday December 10, 2017 @04:06PM (#15893494)
It's hard to believe anyone would pay for that. That is atrocious.
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