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If you're presenting slides, you want your audience to see which slide you are on - you don't want to hope that they manage to navigate to the right place in th
by blunte 7y ago
If you're presenting slides, you want your audience to see which slide you are on - you don't want to hope that they manage to navigate to the right place in their copy of your slides.
Secondly, skeumorphism isn't a dirty word. Sure, the flat-ui crowd have tried to make it dirty, but it has value. Even though it is by design an artificial representation of a real world thing, that doesn't mean there is no value in helping the viewer auto-associate it with the real world thing. Although it is out of style, I daresay it is more effective than the current UI situation we are in these days.
Minimalist (and but not necessarily flat) UIs often give the viewer almost nothing to go on. The skeumorphic designs of the 2000s at least helped the user have a clue what the thing was about.
- mjd 7y agoThanks. I had been calling these technological anachronisms “horseheads” (after the fake horse heads that were sometimes affixed to the hoods of early motor vehicles) but I didn't want to use my own word when there was a pre-existing one. I will go back to "horseheads" then.
- JadeNB 7y ago> If you're presenting slides, you want your audience to see which slide you are on - you don't want to hope that they manage to navigate to the right place in their copy of your slides. Isn't this addressed by the following? > Some co-workers suggested the drawback that it might be annoying to try to stay synchronized with the speaker. It didn't take me long to get in the habit of saying “Next slide, #18” or whatever as I moved through the talk. If you try this, be sure to put numbers on the slides! (This is a good practice anyway, I have found.) I don't know if my audience found it annoying.
- pwinnski 7y agoIt is mitigated, but still an issue, IMO.
- blunte 7y agoIt may depend somewhat on the speaker as well as the audience, but in my experience audience members zone in and out during meetings. The mostly-passive attendee may have little interest, but if the slides are changing automatically (by your action), then it's possible a new slide my grab their attention. If you leave it up to them, some of them will never flip past the first slide on their own.