eepmon

January 7, 2007 6:47 PM

Eepmon's portfolio. ^[flash]
posted by delmoi (11 comments total)

Pretty.

Also, excruciatingly slow to load on a relatively modern computer. Could be just me, but then again ESPN loaded just fine about a minute ago. (with its popups and no-click video clips)

I wonder what Joe Manager at any major ad firm thinks when his P4 2.6ghz 1gig RAM starts to choke on a 1680x1080 Flash website just because he used IE to load it... while having Outlook and Excel open concurrently.

Memory Hog Portfolio FTL. Always design for the viewer, not for the ego.
(You'd be surprised how many Flash designers do it the other way around. Plenty of offenders out there.)
posted by brianvan at 6:55 PM on January 7, 2007

For a horizontally laid out website, having the main controls for viewing more content be relatively miniscule, and in the upper right hand corner is a bit problematic. It took me a while to figure out how to move from one project to the next.

The zoom in/out navigation could be much more usefull, but still, not well thought out.

+ artwork and design aesthetics

- usability

- Beeping noises when I click. I know when I've clicked something. You don't need to give me any feedback at that point.

Overall: Meh
posted by Freen at 7:04 PM on January 7, 2007

Meh with a dash of gah. I kind of resent waiting 5 minutes to see some cack mid-90s-looking illustration work.
posted by jack_mo at 7:13 PM on January 7, 2007

I've written enterprise software that used less memory and loaded faster. Fuck, I've seen databases that start up faster than that.
posted by GuyZero at 7:24 PM on January 7, 2007

Loads like a glacier, mystery meat navigation, horizontal layout, loads video without a user request. Meh is generous.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 7:26 PM on January 7, 2007

And if you go there wth javascript disabled, you get zip.
posted by maxwelton at 8:38 PM on January 7, 2007

Just to be a pain in the ass I'm going to say the art (under prints) is pretty. So there.
posted by tula at 9:13 PM on January 7, 2007

My download time wasn't slow enough to be a dealbreaker (XP on a Pentium M laptop, 1 Gig Ram w/cable internet, Firefox). Most creative directors have much better systems than that (i.e., usually a new or newish uber-Mac powerbook or desktop with a huge flat screen monitor on a T1) so it might be even less of an issue for someone fresh out of college, but the heavy pages do need to be streamlined.

Some of the art is beautiful. But what's even more impressive is the broad range of media and the skill set behind it. The nav gives the site a unique quality. If anything the toggles (arrows) in the upper right hand corner need to be made more inviting and easier to use.

The thing that annoyed me were the spelling mistakes (eg. "Fill" for "feel" on the "About" page).
posted by Skygazer at 10:05 PM on January 7, 2007

It dled instantly for me, but tiny type turns me off. So I left, as soon as I was annoyed by the navigation, thus was not annoyed by spelling mistakes.
posted by Cranberry at 10:56 PM on January 7, 2007

There are thousands of other design portfolios on the web, some better than this, some not. Not sure why this one deserves to be here.
posted by wubbie at 11:52 AM on January 8, 2007

Actually I'm surprised Delmoi hasn't gotten "the business" over a one link FPP. I mean if I have to be the one, I'll do it, but I'd rather leave this sort of dirty work to those who relish it (and you know who you are :)). I mean I guess we did QA the kids site, but Delmoi what gives?? Bad Bad Delmoi. Go sit in the corner.
posted by Skygazer at 12:21 PM on January 8, 2007