Parallax is the web design technique of using CSS to make different layers on the web page move at different rates. So, when scrolling down the page, instead of having all the text, photos, videos ...

Remember about five years ago, when the new hotness in interaction design was to have flashy layers in your website scroll at different speeds, creating a faux-3D effect? The effect was called ...

12-19-2013 EVIDENCE Snow Fail: Do Readers Really Prefer Parallax Web Design? The first careful study of the popular new style suggests they don’t; some even find it disorienting.

Despite the beginning of the end for parallax, its existence has led to a renaissance in the way people — designers and readers — think about web design.