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These are beautiful pictures, but it was hard to navigate. 'Go Inside' for example, would dump in the middle of a gallery of images, making me think that I had

These are beautiful pictures, but it was hard to navigate. 'Go Inside' for example, would dump in the middle of a gallery of images, making me think that I had missed the thumbnails at the beginning. Having a button in the middle of these images was also weird (as is having to click something just to see what the images are about. There's plenty of screen real-estate to show the image caption). Also strange is that the captions were cut off in the middle of some not-so-long sentences. Another click to show the remainder of a sentence. I'm sure this looked very pretty as a design, but the usability is poor.

seagrass 13y ago
'Go Inside' for example, would dump in the middle of a gallery of images, making me think that I had missed the thumbnails at the beginning. Complaining for the sake of complaining? When you hover over "Go Inside" it says "View all photos," so isn't that its exact intention? Plus what are you talking about "missed the thumbnails"?
- alphakappa 13y ago
  >> Complaining for the sake of complaining? No. >> When you hover over "Go Inside" it says "View all photos," so isn't that its exact intention? I'm not sure I even realized what happens when you hover over it. I clicked it and it scrolled past a bunch of thumbnails, showed me a spinner for a while, and then showed me an image. It didn't give me the feeling that I was seeing the first image in the thumbnail list (Maybe it was, but giving proper context is important). To provide context, expand the image in place, or show a lightbox, or show the large image with some thumbnails so I still know that I'm looking at the first image.
cahitonur 13y ago
Nice to see that I'm not the only one having problems with this page. First I thought I have JavaScript disabled but it was not. I just gave up after a couple minutes struggling and refresh. I had a very similar feeling when I login to g+. It's loading and loading and loading but I don't get anything in the end. I started to think twice before I click a google link.
txutxu 13y ago
To add to your note: and does not work with (not so) old browsers.
jgv 13y ago
Biggest usability thing for me is not being able to read the caption when mousing over an arrow. Pretty irritating. http://cl.ly/image/040Y2k2n0o3P http://cl.ly/image/040Y2k2n0o3P
osxrand 13y ago
The arrow navigations don't work for me at all in safari on ios7. None of the photos would load, only the first, the captions worked no problems tho, and would scroll through them all as they should. No other browsers on iOS (that I have installed) work either. Pretty poor showing from a company that promotes openness and interoperability.

seagrass 13y ago

'Go Inside' for example, would dump in the middle of a gallery of images, making me think that I had missed the thumbnails at the beginning. Complaining for the sake of complaining? When you hover over "Go Inside" it says "View all photos," so isn't that its exact intention? Plus what are you talking about "missed the thumbnails"?

alphakappa 13y ago
>> Complaining for the sake of complaining? No. >> When you hover over "Go Inside" it says "View all photos," so isn't that its exact intention? I'm not sure I even realized what happens when you hover over it. I clicked it and it scrolled past a bunch of thumbnails, showed me a spinner for a while, and then showed me an image. It didn't give me the feeling that I was seeing the first image in the thumbnail list (Maybe it was, but giving proper context is important). To provide context, expand the image in place, or show a lightbox, or show the large image with some thumbnails so I still know that I'm looking at the first image.

cahitonur 13y ago

Nice to see that I'm not the only one having problems with this page. First I thought I have JavaScript disabled but it was not. I just gave up after a couple minutes struggling and refresh. I had a very similar feeling when I login to g+. It's loading and loading and loading but I don't get anything in the end. I started to think twice before I click a google link.

txutxu 13y ago

To add to your note: and does not work with (not so) old browsers.

jgv 13y ago

Biggest usability thing for me is not being able to read the caption when mousing over an arrow. Pretty irritating. http://cl.ly/image/040Y2k2n0o3P http://cl.ly/image/040Y2k2n0o3P

osxrand 13y ago

The arrow navigations don't work for me at all in safari on ios7. None of the photos would load, only the first, the captions worked no problems tho, and would scroll through them all as they should. No other browsers on iOS (that I have installed) work either. Pretty poor showing from a company that promotes openness and interoperability.