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Hi Michael,

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@suse.com>wrote:

I noticed that, in your mockups, it's not indicated that one has to
swipe right/left to get to the next/previous slide. It'd be great if a
little bit of the next/previous slide was shown at the right/left side
to indicate that.

        Urgh; the windows phone 8 way of corrupting the screen with
annoying
stuff you can't read on the side ? ;-) personally I hate that with a
loathing and a fear - it eats at my sub-clinical neurosis: "how can I
clean my display up not to have that cruft on it ?": do Android apps
generally do that ? also - most experienced presenters put no content at
all near the borders of their slides since many projectors generously
crop the top/bottom/left/right (and more ;-) - so we're talking about a
prolly block-colour rectangle there.

        But - clearly, I'm not a UI guy so ... is there not some other way
we
can have some (only transient) annoyance to show people that they need
to swipe their slides across ? [ is that really un-discoverable ? ]


Well, off the top of my head, when starting the presentation, the first
slide could animate in from the right. That should hopefully get the point
across without being annoying.

It's probably not a thing to worry about -- I think the Gallery works
similarly. However, if it turns out that people have trouble with this
anyway, there could be an animation hinting at what to do. (For example, if
the user tries to tap to move to the next slide instead of swiping, the
sllde could move a little bit to the left, revealing a sliver of the next
slide, and then move back.)

Context


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