I totally agree - automatic movie (or sound) playing is quite intrusive most of the time. I suspect it's OK when the user can predict it will happen before they click on the link (like internal "related movies" type link on youtube), but generally I'd avoid it and give users a chance to comprehend the page layout first. Tim On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hmmm. Here is a test case of one. > > I always, guarenteed, leave a site as soon as a video auto-plays without my > consent. And I never go back. > > Why? 90% of the time, I work, surf, write with my headphones on, with the > music playing. Autoplay overides what I am listening to, usually at a > volume > much more than my music, and in somecases have literally cause pain in my > ears - that is why I will never go to MySpace - ever. > > Just sayin. > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Randy Harbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > All. > > I have a request from the client to auto-play a video on load for a given > > page. The page contains the video prominently at the top and has > > significant > > additional information below. Our internal discussion is that the user > > needs > > to take an inventory of the content of the page and would miss the 1st > part > > of the video if it auto played. I also suspect that auto play on a page > > that > > has additional content is an unexpected action. Conversely I believe if > the > > video were the only content on the page it would be OK to auto-play. > > Opinions, strategy and rationale either way requested. > > > > Thanks, > > Randy > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > > > > > -- > ~ will > > "Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Will Evans | User Experience Architect > tel: +1.617.281.128 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 > twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Kei te kōrero tiki au. Kei te kōrero tiki koe. Ka kōrero tiki tāua. Kōrero ai tiki tāua. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
