Can't help, but I don't like these click a button to scroll down to relevant content presentations. That is the new style of the doomed splash screens.
Worst UX ever. Even more annoying then slideshows. You click the link expecting to be able to read the story but instead you're forced to sit through the most annoying opening sequence ever. Pro tip: click over and over again and it finally does go away and you are allowed to scroll down, but be aware when scrolling down the story disappears into a full screen image with a single line of text several times. Is there another source for this?
Might want to start it scrolling automatically, or otherwise do a better job of communicating that there's anything to see on the page.
I got all the way back here thinking it was just a pretty splash screen, after trying for 30 seconds to click on things above the fold with no success.
Only after reading comments did I go back to see if there was anything I had missed. I suspect a lot of people clicking through will simply hit the back button and remember nothing but having seen a slow-loading picture of a face.
Just the first screen and then not the subsequent screens depending on where you click. I clicked around trying to figure out what to do and got to what looked like presentation slides with a prev/next links. I just saw text ("Doherty Threshold") and a meaningless graphic. Clicking on the screen does nothing. I didn't realize you were supposed to scroll down for more text, I just didn't see the scrollbar and I guess I wasn't looking for it because the page looked like slides.
Further pages can be found by clicking the next button that floats up when you approach the end of the screen - it worked for me in FF, though I don't consider such design comfortable.
Doesn't this look a bit closer to W7P's navigation? I don't remember seeing that kind of interfaces on webOS (may have missed it of course) but having the "next" screen "leak" into the current one is a prevalent pattern of W7P, it's a major feature of "panorama" navigation[0][1] (and more toned down but still present in "pivot" navigation[1], where only the title/top of the screen leaks, but the content part isn't leaked)
The problem that I ran into was the lack of clear visual cues that you are supposed to scroll, which is why I was referring to everything as slides. I simply clicked on the things that it looked like you were supposed to click on. If you approach the site in that way, you miss out on virtually all of the content.
In a way, I should know better. I landed on a news article earlier in the day that started with one of those dynamic infographics that you interact with through scrolling. I was at the point of backing out of the page, concluding that the article was the infographic, when a hint of an actual article popped up on the screen. While it is a visually, I also find it a very annoying waste of time when I am trying to find information.
(Incidentally, I didn't run into the performance issues that others have been mentioning even though I was using an 8 year old computer.)
How about sliding up once on the first page visited and then on subsequent pages just have it display. It's the sliding up on every single page that is so distracting (perhaps that's the intent).
Once I figured out that it was a slideshow and not a broken page I liked the format. They should have a highly visible arrow to the right though, since scrolling and pressing the down key do nothing.
UI is weird. Left/right goes between main topics, up/down goes through the slides on that topic. So if you just go right, right, right, you're only seeing the headings.
Why would you? You're not scrolling up to get recommendations, you're scrolling up to re-read content.
Or at least, that's me. If I want to go back to navigation, I hit the Home key (the vast majority of systems do have one or two of them...). If I'm scrolling up, it's to read.
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