James Oppenheim’s blog

http://www.dontclick.it/

Now here is an interesting site that pushes the bounders of user interaction offering an experiment on how we interact with websites. To click or not to click, that is the question. The navigation within this site is set up so that a rollover activates the buttons rather than the traditional click. This removes the need to click at all throughout your journey of the website.

An interesting idea. However, I found myself wanting to click on the icons and links within the site. To the point where it was quite unnatural and somewhat disconcerting not being able to click with in the interface. This is such an ingrained habit that I was constantly tempted to click and wanted to click even though I know I shouldn’t.

Why should we reinvent the wheel, I am sure Jacob Nelson and Steve Krug would agree. Interesting research and a very strange experience to boot. I think Steve’s book sums up my feelings on the situation ‘don’t make me think‘.

What do you think?

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