I found Dontclickit to be both noteworthy and irritating. The project, undertaken by a guy named Alex from The Institute of Interactive Research, describes itself as exploring “a click free environment”.
Considering clicking only one way to navigate a user interface, Dontclickit allows you to travel through the site simply by moving your mouse around. The look of the site is great, and at first interacting with it is quite entertaining.
Considering that I’m hardly an expert in user interface design I visited uncle Wiki for some light reading, and found a really obvious requirement missing from Dontclickit: “the users need to be able to control the system”. Different parts of the page pop up in (what seemed to me) a rather uncontrollable way. As another blogger Jim pointed out, the site can’t tell when I’m specifically interested in a section or just moving over it, which does become frustrating after a while.
This kind of navigation is interesting but not universally useful. Having said that, new ideas are always a good thing, and while click free navigation like this would be a disaster for a banking website it could work quite well for a punchy attention grabbing or information sharing site. What I have to ask Dontclickit though, is why not? I found myself missing the click, it works quite well for me, and barring a better solution, I see no need to abandon it just yet.
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