Everyone is going nuts about the presentation/scrolling/UI of worrydream, but they are missing out on the goldmine of what he's actually been working on: http://worrydream.com/#!/Showreel2012
Its absolutely insane someone could be that productive in 2 years. A lot of the ideas in that showreel are incredible. Yeah many of them probably don't work, but I saw dozens of new interactions that don't exist anywhere else. Plus the demo is >4 years old. That's amazing.
His CV has the following quote: “One of the greatest user interface design minds in the world today.” — Alan Kay
People are obsessed with getting immediate gratification and have little to no attention span these days.
It's not a demand for instant gratification so much as a demand for functional websites. The page was so weighed down by javascript bloat that it lagged on my phone when trying to scroll. I gave up in disgust and never made it to the allegedly-awesome showreel.
I'd certainly never hire that guy based on my first impression, which is that he doesn't value performant code.
In the context of a showcase website, first impressions matter. You want the work to be front and center. Not the fact that you can't design a usable website.
The thing that got to me about how amazing his website was is how many of his sites I've actually seen, used and been impressed with that were all built by him.
I also honestly can't say I've faced the usage issues other people have. It was a pleasure to look through a bunch of his stuff and I actually kept on looking for fun.
Its absolutely insane someone could be that productive in 2 years. A lot of the ideas in that showreel are incredible. Yeah many of them probably don't work, but I saw dozens of new interactions that don't exist anywhere else. Plus the demo is >4 years old. That's amazing.
His CV has the following quote: “One of the greatest user interface design minds in the world today.” — Alan Kay
People are obsessed with getting immediate gratification and have little to no attention span these days.