The folks over at Clearleft have just put up a holding/sign-up page for their upcoming Silverback app — and it’s a beautiful thing, with a gorgeous Jon Hicks-designed gorilla and an absolutely brilliant faux-parallax scrolling effect involving multiple background images.

But what is it for? Aside from being “for web designers”, the page doesn’t give any hints about what we are being asked to sign up to receive updates on – is it a web app or desktop app? The gorilla’s holding some graphs – does that mean anything? And, as responsible web designers who care about communication and helping site visitors to achieve their goals… why are we so wedded to the idea of obscuring meaning and hiding the purpose of our own products?

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