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[Question: What are the some of the most jaw-dropping websites that you have come across lately?]
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What are some of the most jaw-dropping sites you've come across recently
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and what about them made them standout for you?
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Oh gosh! What are some of the most jaw-dropping sites I've seen lately.
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Oh that's really putting me on the spot.
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I'm actually going to go ahead and open up my Instapaper right now and--
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This is risky folks. This is pretty risky. I had a look at his Instapaper earlier.
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And see here. Oh my gosh! I'm going to log in.
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You know anytime I do come across a jaw-dropping site,
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I do go ahead and save it in Instapaper and again it comes back to that inspiration
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thing where I go ahead and save stuffs to go ahead and look back up later.
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Sometimes I can come from a design blog.
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Other times it might just be like a really cool CSS technique or something.
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I got one for you. What do you think of the parallax scrolling?
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What do I think about parallax scrolling? >>Yeah.
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The new Nike make site makes pretty interesting use of it.
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I figured you're going to bring that up.
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The new site is so awesome. The air Jordan 012 site fired up over here
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and see if you can--let's see--what, choose your flight.
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You're just scrolling and there is like crazy rocketships made of shoes.
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This is maybe not great for every single website but--
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It's I mean, it definitely has a lot of visual flare in it
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and has that layered interactivity that I was talking about where it's not deeply interactive
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but you can kind of go ahead and explore at your own pace and as you're scrolling
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like different things happen on the page.
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I've seen a lot of examples of that, I think it's--
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At first when I first saw it, I was like--this is really gimmicky..
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It's cool like don't get me wrong--definitely as a designer
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and somebody that enjoys CSS like
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I thought it was super, super noble and interesting but I am also very practical.
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I'm always going to think like, okay, how I would use this for realsies?
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I think that's something that kind of sets me apart from other designers
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like I really, as much as I want to, I'm not just going to do something for the sake of it,
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like I really have to figure out, okay, immediately how I'm I going to use this,
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but I think parallax scrolling is pretty cool and probably here to stay.
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One site that I did really enjoy was this jessandruss.us.
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It was kind of circulating around the Twitters here a little while ago.
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Basically, it tells a story of these two people that are getting married
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and to get it uses parallax scrolling and as you scroll on the page,
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you kind of see how these two timelines eventually intertwined.
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So. >>That's really cool. >>Yeah. I thought it was pretty neat and it was a good way to tell a story.
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So that might be one practical use.
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[Question: What are the some of the most jaw-dropping websites that you have come across lately?]
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