Need A New Site To Feel All Superior To? Check This.

by Paul Sherman on February 8, 2012 · 4 comments

in Bring The Funny, Web

  • Slow-loading, zoomy Flash animation? Check.
  • Music that kicks on when page loads? Check.
  • Throbbing animated .gifs? Check.
  • Eyestrain-inducing oversaturated color palette? Check.
  • Borderline offensive use of models in suggestive food-eating poses? Check check and check.
  • Bonus points: The site designer link leads to an Apache setup page. Oops.

The site’s got one thing going for it. But I’m guessing they didn’t actually research the advantages of radial menus for speed of onscreen target acquisition….it’s more about the pizza visual metaphor. The pizza pie menu is actually more efficient than a drop-down menu. Read up on the advantages and drawbacks of radial menus here.

But the zooming pizza slices are, let’s just say, optically unpleasant.

Could this be another “so bad it’s great” site, like Ling’s Cars? Maybe. I have half a mind to reach out to the site’s proprietors just to find out. I’m just so slammed with the new and growing company I don’t have any time to go on this type of adventure these days.

Check it: www.pizza-pop.ch

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jo-Anne-Wright/1435264162 Jo Anne Wright

    So many moving things!  If the pizza pieces just moved a bit instead of flying around it would almost be tolerable.

  • Red Paint

    OK… now I feel kinda bad for attacking Hungry Howie’s site on my blog. Compared to this HH’s is a thing of sublime beauty, regardless of the annoying nav.

  • Croc

    You gotta love the throbbing phone number.

    • http://www.usabilityblog.com/ pjsherman

      “Throbbing phone number” sounds so wrong…

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