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if you're interested in the product you'll get about 1000 times more information via their website than this article

https://www.dyson360eye.com/

Yikes, what did they do to the page's "scroll" function?

Do people actually find that usable? It definitely made me think the page was broken at first... The slideshow seems like a 'play' (right-arrow) much more than a 'scroll' (down-arrow).

Is this a metaphor for Dyson vacuums in general? (Technically-clever, shiny, but not necessarily the most effective)

It is basically, what I first saw at Apple's site for the new Mac Pro. Lately, Volvo has it with its new XC90. It seems like a new trend. Basically copying all those one page sites, which started with parallax scrolling.

With clicking it works fine. But some don't really like scrolling via touch.

Not only the scroll wheel, but clicking on the links at the top open up a different browser tab. Why do people like playing with standard browser behaviour like that?

And best of all, the "shop" link takes you to a shop where you can't buy it...

It worked very well on my laptop. Moving between slides felt very natural. Going back, I see that scrolling 'back' (up) didn't work as well. Interesting. I would never have noticed if your comment didn't make me check.

Why did you think it was broken? It said 'scroll to begin' on my screen so I suppose I knew I was expecting something when I scrolled.

When I flick my fingers up, I expect a smooth vertical movement of the view pane, exposing new content at the bottom. I can scroll fast and far if I want to scan for interesting content, and scroll backwards if I might have missed something. Every other web page does this, except this one. It subverts the conventional affordance of the scroll wheel / two-finger scroll.

The recent NYTimes article about ISIS in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ( http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/03/world/middleea... ) is a much better treatment of the scroll.

If I'm going to be subjected to lengthy animations between slides, I generally expect arrows left-and-right to click on.

The whole 'scroll to begin' language on an otherwise beautiful page is a usability smell. See http://www.harmoni.ca/blog/affordances

Also incredibly similar to Apple's Mac Pro.

[1] http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

Just don't think of it as "scroll" if you have a mouse. Click the little bubbles on the right to navigate.

Everything except pricing information and independent verification of their superiority claims. Dyson's have traditionally come with a premium for their "technology". I'll be patiently waiting for the reviews to trickle in.

I have a cheap Roomba iRobot and I'm perfectly happy with it. I have hardwood floors so even if the Dyson has more power, I do not see a compelling reason to upgrade.

Why "technology" in inverted commas? That's an unwarranted sneer.

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