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by franciscop 3437 days ago
Please make the website more usable. It has a really nice design but poor UX. At least I should be able to scroll to... scroll. And hiding elements until you hover over an invisible part of the screen is totally against a good UX (discoverability). This could be okay in games or in purely artistic webpages, but if you intend your visitors to use the page and read the content it is counterproductive.

Edit: being this a project for making slides on a website with such a poor UX gives a really bad feeling for your potential clients. Will the project itself have the same problems? Will I be trying to hurry to finish the presentation and not find a button to save as PDF because it's invisible? etc

Edit: the link was changed from the website to the github.com, this comment was intended for the original URL: https://webslides.tv/

4 comments

I agree here. When I got to the site I thought that it was just a placeholder image until I saw your comment and tried the keyboard.

Browsing the web is pretty mouse/trackpad driven. Especially for landing sites like this. It just felt un-intuitive.

This is the ultimate article on scrolling UX:

https://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/

Basically, don't mess with built-in scrolling functionality - just change how your page renders based on scroll position.

Thanks for your suggestion, franciscop. Check again (desktop view) :) https://webslides.tv/
to jlantunez (I cannot reply in your comment), better as I can see the footer now, but it is barely visible, the nav is still hidden and you should probably be listening to the scroll and then scroll the page depending on that, as that's the expected behavior on websites. on('scroll') probably doesn't work as you want to listen for intent, but google gave me really good results on this topic back in the day