Thanks for the feedback Tony. We received very similar feedback from initial users who didn't notice the "left" and "right" arrows at first. Recently a message was added "swipe for next article" on the main hero image, but I voted for (and lost) having a brief user instruction lightbox on first visit.
Apparently user discoverability is valued in UX, but only to a point I would expect. Analytics shows low bounce rates from the landing page so it seems most are finding the navigation system for themselves. You wouldn't believe how much time went in to getting the swipe system working properly on all the device! What a pain!! Some of the considerations: * changing page heights - what if you swipe into a page from below the bottom of the next page * delay loading pages - we only preload the next and prior pages * DOM too big for phones/tablets - at about p4 the DOM is so big there is a noticeable lag on lower powered devices (the iPad stopped altogether) so we start unloading pages * Analytics triggering - we have to do Google triggers manually * Page load errors - fallback/retry mechanism for when a load fails * Animation - we use CSS3 page transitions, except when we don't; iPad won't tolerate a page transition and a drop-down list (the content from the drop down doesn't respect the page transition position so when the transition is finished we reset the position using normal CSS offsets Don't try this at home kids. We forked 3 libraries and bolted a ton of our own code to make it all work. Result is pretty good I think. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Chung Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 1:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Help needed! Responsive Design! Richard, I really like the alternative treatment, where content is offered when the user scrolls left and right. From a usability standpoint, I wonder if there should be more visual cues that the user can get more content sideways. I only found it because I play with sites. But if I were looking for information I might have skipped it. -T On Friday, April 26, 2013, Richard Hauer wrote: stockland.com.au/betterliving <http://stockland.com.au/betterliving> :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
