There are a few IMO quite serious problems with the intro, which didn’t really become clear till we’d implemented it.
What if the user has her volume turned down? She presses the play button, and then nothing happens apart from the map unexpectedly animating every few seconds. There is nothing she can do except close or reload the page.
What if the user is in an open-plan office, and didn’t realise the play button would play audio? There’s no way to stop it once it’s started. What if the user is interrupted? Etc.
It would be great to kick around some ideas for what we can do about this, when you are back.
robinhouston
commented
12 years ago
There are a few IMO quite serious problems with the intro, which didn’t really become clear till we’d implemented it.
What if the user has her volume turned down? She presses the play button, and then nothing happens apart from the map unexpectedly animating every few seconds. There is nothing she can do except close or reload the page.
What if the user is in an open-plan office, and didn’t realise the play button would play audio? There’s no way to stop it once it’s started. What if the user is interrupted? Etc.
It would be great to kick around some ideas for what we can do about this, when you are back.