Online slide shows
http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/24/cx_hc_0327worst_customer_service_slide.html
Online slide shows are they something that are useful especially when there is quite a bit of text to read in every slide?
Isn’t it user friendly to just provide a navigation that lets the user to advance from one slide to the other instead of having an autoplay option where the screen refreshes when the user is halfway through reading the text?
Recent experience at Forbes.com is what made me write this.
As I was watching the slide show and reading the information the screen would suddenly refresh and advance to a new slide. If I were to pause, I’d have to hit the ‘stop’ button and take my time to read without the worry of the stop clock ticking and the screen refreshing. Now, when I advance to the next slide, I assumed that since I hit the ‘stop’ button earlier, I’d have the option to control the slides manually. But no, the screen refreshes again. This meant that every time I wanted extra time to read or view a slide, I’d hit ‘stop’ in each slide while also advancing to the next one. Shouldn’t we be more considerate about the user?
Suggestion:
If we could separate the navigation to a time-based autoplay and a manual mode, it would tremendously help.
- When the page loads, set it to the manual advance mode.
- Provide an autoplay option with the different speed setting, which the user could use if required.
- Don’t mix time-based and manual mode like it currently is.