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This has to be one of the worst UIs for a slide deck. "Why aren't these questions being answered?" ... "Oh, the slide advance UI changes. Too inconspicuous."
by delinka 12y ago
This has to be one of the worst UIs for a slide deck. "Why aren't these questions being answered?" ... "Oh, the slide advance UI changes. Too inconspicuous."
- guelo 12y agoOh! You go down until you run out of slides then you go right.
- debaserab2 12y agoI didn't spend enough time to figure that out. I just assumed that the audio piece that went along with the slide deck wasn't uploaded and closed my browser. I don't think this is intuitive enough. If your slide deck needs a secondary nav, it probably shouldn't be a slide deck.
- rifung 12y agoTo be honest I kind of like it. I was confused at first as well but this does allow you to more quickly go between sections of a powerpoint which just isn't possible with the traditional "you can only swipe left or right" presentation. Not only that but it also makes it much easier get an overview about what things are discussed in the presentation.
- kjar 12y agosimilarly at first it confused me, but now I understand it is like a table of contents which is useful and easy to use.
- soong 12y agoOr you could put a TOC at the beginning (you know, like in a book) and do no sliding at all. -> No confusion, great overview, direct jumps with hyperlinks, easy to realize with pure HTML.
- frou_dh 12y agoI'm shocked that the top two HN comments as of writing are bikeshedding the submission's web design.
- jacques_chester 12y agoThis is "Why is the bike shed missing three walls and half the roof?"ing.
- frou_dh 12y agoChapters bother you that much huh?
- jacques_chester 12y agoNot when they're arranged as a book, rather than a quilt disguised as a book.
- delinka 12y agoHow's it trivial that the terrible design is a barrier to the content?
- peatmoss 12y agoTo jump on the bandwagon here, I recently set up a gopher site for a friend running for local office (sort of as a geeky in-joke). I came away from the experience actually wanting more gopher. Yes, the web can be a platform for things that should be simple documents, but gopher all but guarantees a uniform UI and nothing but content. I didn't bother to figure out the multi-dimensional navigation of these slides. Paraphrasing Tufte, Richard Feynman managed to write about much of physics without resorting to more than two levels of headings. I'm similarly unconvinced that multi-dimensional, nested documents are really that helpful here.
- leni536 12y agoA presentation is designed to be mainly useful for the presenter. In an actual presentation I could see it useful to navigate between main chapters when I get questions at the end. Now that it is shared and some people have minor problems navigating it at first is much lower priority. Maybe the shared slides could be linearized.