iView etc

So I was catching up on some ABC this week on their "iView" video service - pretty impressive. As soon as you start you're greeted with something that seems to check your internet bandwidth and whether or not you can access their content "unmetered" or without it going to your monthly download cap.

The service has a very sleek flash interface with some impressive (albeit unneeded) use of motion-blur in scrollable areas. You can browse different channels and highlights from the homepage or search for a program in a search bar up the top. Though most of this works well and without issue, full-browser-window flash can sometimes be quite slow on some computers. But the ease of the menus and transitions and the logical structuring of content makes iView quite a breeze to use.

http://www.abc.net.au/iview/

Is it just bad or impressively bad?

This site could quite possibly be the worst designed website ever and subsequentially the most confusing and retarded GUI in the existence of mankind.

Myyyyy god. I am almost impressed by how bad it really is. I mean I didn't even know such atrocities were possible with HTML... Oh wait, I completely forgot about Myspace.

The site itself doesn't appear to have any purpose however if indeed it has a function, I believe it is probably something to do with disorientating or completely annoying the hell out of the user. In this case, one could consider this website a success. But this doesn't excuse the fact that its user-friendliness is non-existent and therefore its GUI is utter balls.

It appears to be made up of predominately overlapping imagery and text with a slew of random links here and there. It is a cocktail of bad HTML practices and GUI no-nos. Nevertheless one can marvel the effort that somebody put into this "project" - it takes some skill to make a site this bad.