Slideshow UX Frustrations
Users complain about confusing navigation, lack of obvious controls, fast auto-advance, and poor discoverability of a slideshow or carousel interface on a website, often mistaking it for a broken page.
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Was confused at first. This is a slideshow and on bottom right there's a button to go to the next slide.
It took me a while to figure out this was a slideshow, and that only part of the page is clickable. (Plus, keyboard keys do nothing.)
Ok, I think I'm lost in UX nirvana. I only see the first slide (I assume it's a slide show?) and neither clicking it nor pressing space/left/right keys advances the slide show.Anyone a hint how to use this page?
The interface is so frustrating! I just want to view a slideshow of photos, but your carousel on the main page keeps leading to new pages!That said, this is a pretty cool project, and a nice idea as well.
I had the same problem too. I had no idea it was supposed to be a slide show, then once I gave my browser as much screen real estate as the site wanted I had to figure out how to navigate the damn thing.Whats so wrong with just sticking a bunch of static slides on a page one after another?
Please please please let me view the top pics in slideshow mode.
Doesn't seem to work on desktop either. I only see 3 slides.Edit: arrow keys are your friends.
Looks great! one thing, you have a nice carousel going on, and maybe I'm a slow reader but I had to make it go back to the last slide three times before I finished reading it. Consider either making the carousel change slower or better yet, make the story vertical.
Once I figured out that it was a slideshow and not a broken page I liked the format. They should have a highly visible arrow to the right though, since scrolling and pressing the down key do nothing.
haha, the carousel is moving to the next slide too fast to read fully -_-'