Giant

Giant

Honestly, I’m a bit hesitant in posting this. The design of this is great, the type is great, the layout is functional and attractive. Even though I can’t read a word of it, I still want to click around. Giant seems to do good work also, judging from their portfolio. However, the first thing you see is a flash gallery slideshow thing that is a copy of iTunes Coverflow. It’s implemented well, and aside from the photos looking a bit jagged and it being kinda heavy (I counted about 20 images at ~20kb apiece, which all seem to load at once, and another 250kb or so in flash and javascript), it looks nice and works with the site. However, I’m curious as to why a company like this, who are obviously not lacking in creative ability would choose to use this specific feature for their homepage. I’m not complaining because they’re ‘ripping off’ Apple or anything, it’s just that it seems unnecessary, when this is a company that should be able to come up with something on their own that’s not a copy of Coverflow.

1 Comment

  1. David Hemphill

    Perhaps their reasoning is to not reinvent the wheel, but use a familiar design pattern used by Apple.

    I don’t know if they should legally, but maybe that’s their reasoning.

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