This website is kind of fun to explore. In my opinion, it's both informative and exploratory due to its experience design.
First, what I like best in this website is the music and the sound effect. It’s especially good to combine sounds with visual cues to help users know they've just moved the mouse over a button or something like that. I think HotMonkeyDesign makes strong use of sound in its interface. We can easily see that different buttons make different audio feedbacks, and the sounds are quite impressive, giving it an unique personality.
Another good experience that HotMonkeyDesign offer is it always gives a message to show how many percents have the user been loading and also some humorous sentences to make people feel less bored and impatient! I think that's a good point that every page needs to apply in their own site. Some sites takes me time to load but never shows where I am now, so sometimes I get bored and angry before visiting them.
The next nice experience to me is the very perfectly smooth movement and design. After a minute of waiting, audiences can view a 30-second intro. The movement is fast and very smooth, which make users feel more interesting and curious. The design looks very clean and uncomplicated, but it requires extremely good skills of drawing on the computer and using Flash to do such an animation interface like that. It's easily seen that the graphics are very interesting to look at and the chosen colors are very harmonious with the main theme of the site.
The navigation is very easy to use since the designers use the plain texts. Some buttons are disguised as small bubbles, giving users another chance to feel interesting and surprising after finding out this kind of button. The choice of typography is kind of plain, they just use san-serif for the whole site, but I think it's suitable for the whole theme as well as emphasizes other important things.
Lastly, I like the animation always works in the background after we finish loading a page. The site seems to be "moving" while people are exploring it, then they'll be curious because they don't know what will happen next! In my opinion, this doesn't only draw audiences' attention, but also makes the site more special.
