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I absolutely loathe this style of presentations. It always feels like I've missed a part. Call me old fashioned but the UI and UX of linear presentations is so

by Jerry2 11y ago

I absolutely loathe this style of presentations. It always feels like I've missed a part. Call me old fashioned but the UI and UX of linear presentations is so much easier to use.

cshenton 11y ago
You mean there were more than the 12 slides I saw?
Nux 11y ago
Yeah, pretty ghastly. Certainly do feel like I missed parts.
- imdsm 11y ago
  Apart from not having the elaboration between slides, I followed it quite well actually. Left/right for chapters, up/down for slides in that chapter?
  - OJFord 11y ago
    Yeah, but why not just show all that in order? It's not like it's big or broad enough for the reader to only be interested in particular 'chapters'.
lagadu 11y ago
It's absolutely horrid. Lets say you want to read everything: first you need to experiment whether depth-first search is going down or right. Then you miss stuff because the down and up buttons on some screens use a lighter shade than what you're expecting that is very close to the "nothing here" shade; after figuring this out you go back to examine everything you saw because you might've missed something based on this mysterious hard-to-distinguish shade. Eventually I gave up, maybe he has interesting stuff to say further on but I'll never know because I was defeated by terrible UI patterns. Prime example of sacrificing usability for looks.
BafS 11y ago
You can simply press "space" to go to the next slide, almost like a linear presentation.
- CarolineW 11y ago
  How do you know? How can you be sure you reach every slide simply by pressing space? What about on my tablet, which doesn't have a space bar? Edit: These are genuine questions, and I am deeply frustrated that it's being downvoted without any discussion. People are claiming that hitting the space bar takes you linearly through the entire presentation. How do you know you reach every slide like that? Really, seriously, how do you know? As far as I'm concerned the navigation is opaque - if I hit space, I don't know that I'll reach every slide. How do you know ?!? I suspect that people are enamoured with the attractiveness of the presentation - it's cool, it's slick, it's gorgeous, it's wonderful - and when I question its usability or discoverability, people are downvoting because they have no answer, and just get pissed off at being questioned. Do you actually have an answer? If so, tell me.
  - tmptmp 11y ago
    You have raised a very important issue here. Today's web has been festered with such sucking UI/UX. It just caters to the demands of novelty-seeking users with no concern for usability/discoverability.
    - qb45 11y ago
      > It just caters to the demands of novelty-seeking users Not even sure if users or just developers and website owners. As in - oh man, that looks so cool, let's do that!
      - tmptmp 11y ago
        Indeed, you made a very sharp statement. It might be driven, to a very large extent, by the crazy novelty-seeking ideas of the website owners and devs. Then if some equally stupid "journalist" gives praise and publicity to their foolish UI/UX this trend increases and perpetuates. Unfortunately, it seems to be happening to a very large extent. The irony of this article is that it talks about security, and calls for anti-bloat things.
blazespin 11y ago
The presentation was linear. Just make sure you click down or press space.
mrmondo 11y ago
First thing I thought too, revealJS is a pain in the ass

by Jerry2 11y ago

I absolutely loathe this style of presentations. It always feels like I've missed a part. Call me old fashioned but the UI and UX of linear presentations is so much easier to use.

cshenton 11y ago

You mean there were more than the 12 slides I saw?

Nux 11y ago

Yeah, pretty ghastly. Certainly do feel like I missed parts.

imdsm 11y ago
Apart from not having the elaboration between slides, I followed it quite well actually. Left/right for chapters, up/down for slides in that chapter?
- OJFord 11y ago
  Yeah, but why not just show all that in order? It's not like it's big or broad enough for the reader to only be interested in particular 'chapters'.

lagadu 11y ago

It's absolutely horrid. Lets say you want to read everything: first you need to experiment whether depth-first search is going down or right. Then you miss stuff because the down and up buttons on some screens use a lighter shade than what you're expecting that is very close to the "nothing here" shade; after figuring this out you go back to examine everything you saw because you might've missed something based on this mysterious hard-to-distinguish shade. Eventually I gave up, maybe he has interesting stuff to say further on but I'll never know because I was defeated by terrible UI patterns. Prime example of sacrificing usability for looks.

BafS 11y ago

You can simply press "space" to go to the next slide, almost like a linear presentation.

CarolineW 11y ago
How do you know? How can you be sure you reach every slide simply by pressing space? What about on my tablet, which doesn't have a space bar? Edit: These are genuine questions, and I am deeply frustrated that it's being downvoted without any discussion. People are claiming that hitting the space bar takes you linearly through the entire presentation. How do you know you reach every slide like that? Really, seriously, how do you know? As far as I'm concerned the navigation is opaque - if I hit space, I don't know that I'll reach every slide. How do you know ?!? I suspect that people are enamoured with the attractiveness of the presentation - it's cool, it's slick, it's gorgeous, it's wonderful - and when I question its usability or discoverability, people are downvoting because they have no answer, and just get pissed off at being questioned. Do you actually have an answer? If so, tell me.
- tmptmp 11y ago
  You have raised a very important issue here. Today's web has been festered with such sucking UI/UX. It just caters to the demands of novelty-seeking users with no concern for usability/discoverability.
  - qb45 11y ago
    > It just caters to the demands of novelty-seeking users Not even sure if users or just developers and website owners. As in - oh man, that looks so cool, let's do that!
    - tmptmp 11y ago
      Indeed, you made a very sharp statement. It might be driven, to a very large extent, by the crazy novelty-seeking ideas of the website owners and devs. Then if some equally stupid "journalist" gives praise and publicity to their foolish UI/UX this trend increases and perpetuates. Unfortunately, it seems to be happening to a very large extent. The irony of this article is that it talks about security, and calls for anti-bloat things.

blazespin 11y ago

The presentation was linear. Just make sure you click down or press space.

mrmondo 11y ago

First thing I thought too, revealJS is a pain in the ass