It's completely intentional. The concept is based around a japanese puzzle box. Hard to figure out at first, with no indication on how it works but once you've got it there's a sense of achievement to it.
Because it's a teaser we felt safe leaving it a full mystery even to the detriment of usability and having everyone get there.
Sweet. Had some people scratching their noodles. We had serious debate whether to hint that you could pull it down, even do a timeout on setting the cursor to the hand after a couple of seconds but in the end we left it to be blank.
We won't be so criptic for the next release though :D
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Now that the site's live I thought I should throw up the finished image and a link so people can check it out http://2013.ull.ie
Can you figure out the puzzle..?
12 months ago
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Joris Rigerl
Took me a while to understand that I could drag the top of the box. Is that intentional? If not, how about changing the cursor on mouseover?
12 months ago
It's completely intentional. The concept is based around a japanese puzzle box. Hard to figure out at first, with no indication on how it works but once you've got it there's a sense of achievement to it.
Because it's a teaser we felt safe leaving it a full mystery even to the detriment of usability and having everyone get there.
12 months ago
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Joris Rigerl
Alright. Pretty cool then :)
12 months ago
Sweet. Had some people scratching their noodles. We had serious debate whether to hint that you could pull it down, even do a timeout on setting the cursor to the hand after a couple of seconds but in the end we left it to be blank.
We won't be so criptic for the next release though :D
12 months ago