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Nudge users towards goals with annoying CSS3 arrows

by andyshora on 6/24/12, 5:46 PM with 22 comments

  • by crazygringo on 6/24/12, 6:22 PM

    Wow, they're right. It's really annoying.

    At least they're honest.

  • by faulkner on 6/24/12, 6:38 PM

    Surely adult sites will put this to good use.
  • by slig on 6/24/12, 7:28 PM

    Why is jQuery needed? Shouldn't it be just a few new CSS3 stuff and <img class="nudge>?
  • by tobyjsullivan on 6/24/12, 6:58 PM

    Awesome concept and I think it has some potential to evolve but for now I see two problems. 1) The motion makes it too distracting from other page content (at a sub-conscious level) so you may as well just have a blank pages with the action item as nothing else can be consumed. 2) If you're trying to use the arrow to identify the real action item on a page littered with ads, this will just make it look more like an ad.
  • by devinfoley on 6/24/12, 6:24 PM

    I still prefer the <blink> tag.
  • by jcurbo on 6/24/12, 6:59 PM

    Typo in the large title at the top? ("nugenudge" - the code and URL says nudgenudge)
  • by aroman on 6/24/12, 7:27 PM

    Cool idea, but at least for me (2012 13" MacBook Air), scrolling smoothness suffers slightly (yet noticeably).

    I wonder how it performs on iOS/Android devices?

  • by newaccount2 on 6/24/12, 10:24 PM

    GIF/PNG/SVG can do it w/ out Javascript or CSS. That said, this is still bloody brilliant.
  • by grakic on 6/24/12, 6:45 PM

    Is this faster with real browsers than moving a DOM node offset, or using an animated GIF?
  • by rhizome on 6/24/12, 6:58 PM

    It's the blink-tag form of a CTA.

    Also, inevitably there will eventually come a need for an orange one pointing to their how-to video. "Don't forget to sign our guestbook!" "Also, this other thing is kind of important." Just use better page design rather than greebling your existing one.

  • by 5vforest on 6/24/12, 6:00 PM

    Unfortunate that the arrows aren't actually drawn with CSS3.
  • by dr42 on 6/24/12, 6:26 PM

    Rather than use this do the call to action, a better usage for me would be a 'help mode', user clicks help and a wucik walk through of functionality is presented using these arrows to draw attention to some area of the screen.