Must We Click To Interact?

Rockgod writes, "Here is an interesting experiment (warning: heavy Flash!!) that urges you not to click anywhere in the site yet wants you to navigate through it. It's an exploration of the clicking habit of computer users and aims to help understand why it is so hard not to click." The site records the mouse movements of each visitor and offers you a sample of them to replay. Doing so is a little unnerving, like peering into people's minds.

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[rm999]

I actually found this site very hard to navigate. I think this is a direct result of the no-click rule in designing it.

Re:Yes, we have got to click

[Lord_Dweomer]

Compare that to what you can do with a pen. Forcing precision on the mouse action requires finer movement, greatly increases the likelyhood of unintentionally selecting something, and is generally far more stressful. This is why the users seem to get anxious and want to click. They really want to avoid this horrid new interface that, for some reason, some jackass is trying to force on them.

Funny you should mention a pen. While it uses a pencil, the new Leo Burnett [www.leoburnett] website (they are one of the bigger ad agencies out there) does just this and is extremely difficult to use. What is funny is that they have been praised by many in the industry.

Recently however, Lewis Lazare, the advertising columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, a figure who's opinion is highly respected...BLASTED them out of the water in this scathing piece [suntimes.com] about their website. Of course, he addresses some other points that I definitely agree on, but the relevance is in his discussion about the interface.

And I'd just like to add....who in the hell gave Leo Burnett the right to resize my browser window? Bastards.