Web trends: Peels
This is the start of what I hope to be a semi regular post about trends on the web.
To start off, this week I’m going to talk about Page Peels. If you don’t know what I’m refering to then check out a couple webcomics that have started using it PVP and Least I could do. Now I started seeing these a long while back in early years of Collage. It was first simply a neat thing to do with flash. I’m not sure what came first, the Page peel, or the Flip book which uses the Page peel to replicate the visual of a page turning multiple times to look like a book or magazine.
Now I really hate harping on these trends, but I’d have to say that it’s reached the point of being overused. It was cool in beginning, but now I see it all the time. And does it really have an effect on the user? Just seems very gimmicky to me.
Let me know what you think.