OP, you're not alone. I find the recent trend of website designs to be almost unusable. Just when your eyes focus on a portion of the page to be able to read it, the whole freakin page suddenly moves, or scrolls, or presents something else... without you ever touching the mouse.
Or, just when you've mentally mapped all the things you saw at first glance, that you want to examine in more detail individually... again, the entire page morphs into something else. This rapid wipe scrolling nonsense.
Or, take Ford's commercial vehicle website for example. I was trying to "build and price" a commercial transit van. There are two columns presented initially, where the column on the right has a scroll bar. But it really isn't clear that the column on the left is scrollable, because the scroll bar doesn't "appear" until you mouse over it in just the right way. How would I know that.
So I'm going along, trying to build this cargo van, and I know that Transits have a configuration that is different than what I'm trying to build, but I can't see the option anywhere on the page. How do they expect me to know what exists if I can't see it?
By accident, I move the mouse in such a way that another scroll bar appears in the middle of the page, and now other configurations appear... but they are in graphic boxes so large that only 2 or 3 options can appear on my screen at a time. Huge empty graphic boxes, with a generic sign that says "photo not available" over and over again. So I can't compare the choices without vigourous scrolling up and down, hunting for a scroll bar that plays hide and seek all the time.
I can't tolerate today's generation of websites. I'm sure the new millennials with their phones in their faces all the time just laugh and dismiss one old man on a revolt, but the only way I could actually place an order for a vehicle is with an all text order guide printed on paper or pdf.
