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superkickstarttoday at 10:12 AM6 repliesview on HN

Cool, but damn this is annoying to browse with phone.


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nnevatietoday at 11:24 AM

To be honest, it's not much better on desktop. Jittering dots everywhere.

pxoetoday at 10:23 AM

Stupid wiggly and slightly laggy dots with no option to stop motion altogether are making it annoying to browse on desktop as well. Everything is constantly moving and there's hardly any telling what's what among model dots, and they don't have much spatial persistency so you're just constantly lost. The only predictable way to browse is just going thru 755 cards page by page.

Otherwise, extremely interesting materials. Unfortunately, doesn't seem to include later nokia smartphones, like ones with maemo and meego like n900 and n9, even though in my opinion they still very much had something to say and to show with their design, both physically with shape and look of the phones, and with phone interfaces. dare i say, they were quite influential still, and those design sensibilities, at least phone look wise, still echoed for years in later nokia (lumia and even hmd nokia) phones

a lot of funky stuff in presentations, like this one https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_68d7aeff-c4fb-49c0-be... or this one https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_b5225dd0-743a-4b6d-ba...

annex-winged-crtoday at 10:53 AM

This version is slightly more tolerable:

https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_eef40316-aa3b-4fe3-8...

KellyCriteriontoday at 10:16 AM

Well, its a media-rich & heavy site, clearly not develped for mobile usage :-)

minimeowtoday at 10:22 AM

It's clearly not the Mobile-First Design Archive ;)

Sadly it's a reflection of why Nokia failed - Mobile Safari on iOS pretty much nailed the coffin for the Nokia approach to mobile browsing.

I think what's interesting is how looking back at the Nokia nostalgia is compelling because iOS and Android have become such overlords over our digital lives.

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swiftcodertoday at 10:27 AM

It's not that great on desktop either