Nestlé Waters
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- jfletcher0
seriously...why did I wait for that? WTF. I mean.... it's really nice, but it's a crime for the load time.
- robotron3k0
boy and I thought the pharma work I've done sucked...
- lukus_W0
I learnt that water is healthy because it has no calories (!!).. and that the plastic bottles they use are actually 'green' because the support the _idea_ of recycling and they're using 30% less plastic than normal.
A complete joke.
- exador10
i think the consensus here is that a) it's very pretty looking - so as a designer of pretty looking, attractive sites, you've done well.
and b) the site is ridiculously long to load, thus removing most of any audience.. - so as a designer of websites, you just 'may' have to rethink a few things, and possibly hire a usability guy or something.
i loaded it up and looked at it...was impressed with it visually, but the load time almost made me turn it off....actually, the only reason i waited is that since I'm a fellow designer, i wanted to give an honest opinion....but that's going to be rare dude...most folks are NOT designers that recognize your name on QBN and want to see your latest work....my wife, for example would have just clicked off after a few seconds, and since she's the one in our house that actually buys bottled water, she's a fairly accurate representation of your audience....she would definitely not have waited to see any of that stuff....
regardless of how good something looks (and i repeat, i thought it looked quite nice) if it takes that long to load, no one will wait. no one.
my guess is the direction from this either came from a print campaign, or that it will part of one? because all i could think was that the creative seemed better suited to print...
- tOki0
im on a 22mbit connection and this thing took more than a minute to load..that is fail
- lvl_130
client: we want something cool.
firm: we have some great ideas.
client: our timeline is tight.
client: we have seen a lot of competitor sites using the entire browser window with full rich graphics and intricate transitions between site "sections". a lot of them have actually been using fullscreen video! that could be cool!
firm: we have some great ideas. let us get back to you on timeline aspects from our end.
client: it was due yesterday...and did we mention there are actually 6 different waters we are trying to sell here?
firm: ummm, no you didn't mention that there are actually 6 waters. and the timeline seems absolutely impossible to meet.
client: *sets down an enormous briefcase with cash spilling out of every corner.
firm: so...we have some great ideas that we would love to show you.
- Nostradamus0
This site sucks.
When are so called "interactive" shops going to learn that in this medium, it's about what you allow the user to /do/, not what you say or how you say it.
I mean, maybe they remembered that at the last minute, opened up a copy of Highlights for Kids, and stole that stupid "Find a butterfly" game.
Same problem with the Frenzied Waters site. Your-Majesty simply doesn't get it.
- This is a medium of action. Not passive panorama viewing. Hell it's called interACTIVE!Nostradamus
- JonnyPompa0
YM does eye candy very well.
- But remember, eye candy without a decent message is likely to create brain cavities.lukus_W
- monNom0
that is a fucking massive bottle of water...
- dog_opus0
Civil and reasonable criticism as usual...
This site is fun. It stopped loading for about five seconds around 5%, and then loaded very quickly after that for me. I love the panorama theme and the click and drag function. Navigation is easy, although I soon found myself bored with the content (it is about bottled water, after all). Great work, man.
Yes, bottled water is a joke (my town's tap water is excellent in my dented steel bottle), but this is design for work, not a Code Pink rally or a seminar about how fools spend their money. I just had to do a bunch of print work for an event glorifying one of America's first domestic terrorists. Ones principles must often be made secondary to ones ability to pay bills.