Maybe it's aimed at a younger demographic and not just all devs that use cli tools. The design doesn't appeal to me but the several animated examples and quick blurbs about functionality seemed to showcase what was on offer pretty well.
I'm young and had the same experience as GP - for me it's just too little said about too many different things, it's hard to tell what 'it' is (and I only realised on the second read through that that's partly because they are many things).
Imagine if Amazon had a landing page with headings like 'eShopping', 'Internet', and 'Cashierless Shopping' to describe what the company did. (And worse, then obscured them behind fun but not descriptive names.)
It's a nice page, a lot's gone into making it obviously, but it could be about just one project, each section that's currently a different one instead explaining a feature or aspect of it. Or as it is, the big headings should be the class of thing each project is, not its 'fun but not descriptive' name, IMO. (Underneath: 'FunName approaches blah differently by ...', sure, just not the big eye-catching heading when I'm just scrolling trying to see what's on offer.)
They are a company that writes several different tools for developers, not an e-commerce site for the general population. Which tool has a useless description that doesn't tell you what it does? If one tool is interesting to someone they can click it and they are presented with a great Readme that explains it in more detail. It takes like 30 seconds to parse the page and find out if they offer anything that is interesting to you.
> Imagine if Amazon had a landing page with headings like 'eShopping', 'Internet', and 'Cashierless Shopping' to describe what the company did. (And worse, then obscured them behind fun but not descriptive names.)
Well, they do have Route 53, EC2, Elastic something on AWS.
Yes, AWS is infamous for it, but at least in the closest I can think of to a single landing page (the 'service' drop down selector) they're grouped by 'compute' etc. And that's not really intended for describing each one, they each have a separate landing page.
What is the demographic you think this is perfect for?
Just curious who this appeals to. It's not for me but that's OK I like opinionated things and recognised that that this is aimed at someone who probably will love it.
Not the parent, but I find it wonderful. The spring library is one I love.
There’s some charm to spending the time to challenge preconceived notions of CLI output. I find something very beautiful about picking up a new tool and being surprised by the output in a way that piques your curiosity or brings a smile.
It’s the greatest form of learning to be able to just play. Should you be implementing these into your enterprise internal tool to monitor your platforms support tooling? Probably not.
Perfect is a strong word, but it definitely seems to target a younger dev demographic and more specifically, maybe one that likes Japanese style animated cartoons.
Side note on web design: uBlock blocked nothing. Usually when a page that looks like this comes up, I notice 10's to 100's of blocked requests.
On top of that, I disabled JS out of curiosity, and the site worked completely fine, sans expected failures (the only thing that stopped working was the little videos by the libraries)!
I think this is the first site with this level of "Design" (Which I usually hate, but they did a really good job of here here) where both of these things are true.
From usability: It was clean, to the point, and I felt like the goal was to give me information so I could quickly find stuff I was interested in. no sidebars, no popups, no obvious dark patterns, just content.
From Preference: I really like the cyberpunk color scheme with, as I'd describe, bubblegum, aesthetic. It is fun without being overwhelming.
I like most things that pick a theme, and run with it while executing it well. Doesn't honestly matter what that theme is imho.
Demo: Early 20's male who likes tech.
Other examples of sites I like:
jwz (.) org (recommend typing this one into address bar, don't follow links from HN.
https://xxiivv.com/
http://100r.co/site/home.html
https://tildeverse.org/ , and most pages linked to from
https://tildeverse.org/members/
http://9front.org , especially the FQA:
http://fqa.9front.org
I never really liked the flat design, weird colors and shapes design trends from two years ago. So I'm happy to see subtle animations and gradients again.
I thought the design was terrible. Noisy and pointless and frankly hard to see what is on offer.
It’s pretty and stylish but absolutely awful if you care about the content, and that makes me worry that the components themselves will be similar.