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On mobile as you scroll through it cycles through some large photos, breaking the flow of the text. I had to stop trying to read it.
Either make your little UI experiment work flawlessly across all devices, or not at all.
How can ever parents do something like this. I can't imagine how did she survived, not just physically but emotionally.
Based on my thankfully brief flirtation with it, I can say this:
At the bottom of the hopelessness barrel, you end up valuing everyone else’s life as little as you value your own, sadly.
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Even on desktop I find this style of presentation distracting. It looks cool, I get it, but it doesn't feel conducive to story telling to break up the text with a screen filling image every N paragraphs.
I have mixed feelings. It certainly feels like a different experience from most articles (especially BBC ones). Some of the photographs were especially compelling, and I think they'd have had less impact as a sidebar. It's clear that the goal is to capitalize on the browser medium's differences from traditional print media. It's definitely new/different. I don't think I liked it the first time I saw it but in this ca…
To me the point of an article is to provide textual information; I find most of the innovations get in the way of actually getting the info into my brain. (I originally put "innovations" in scare quotes, but they are new ideas, just for me bad ones. But that's the nature of experimentation).
The thing about reading is that, like recognition of 2D images, it's a learned behavior though one (more than image recognition) that appears to hack into some deep structures in the vision system. Breaking the text up like this ironically subverts those mechanisms which likely impedes understanding.
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Even on desktop I find this style of presentation distracting. It looks cool, I get it, but it doesn't feel conducive to story telling to break up the text with a screen filling image every N paragraphs.
It does some curious things though. It makes reading online an interactive thing - you have to 'flip pages' quite deliberately and quite often. That would have a significant effect on engagement I would think. Perhaps (older?) folks like us are put off; but I can imagine a crowd that would be more likely to finish the article, once they got going/hooked?
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Yes some story-telling from BBC's website is very UI-unfriendly. But please do take the time to read the story.
Thankfully someone posted an outline.com link which makes it more readable.
How can ever parents do something like this. I can't imagine how did she survived, not just physically but emotionally.
Depression is a m f er. Based on my thankfully brief flirtation with it, I can say this: At the bottom of the hopelessness barrel, you end up valuing everyone else’s life as little as you value your own, sadly.
On mobile as you scroll through it cycles through some large photos, breaking the flow of the text. I had to stop trying to read it.
It's worth the effort.
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Depression is a m f er. Based on my thankfully brief flirtation with it, I can say this: At the bottom of the hopelessness barrel, you end up valuing everyone else’s life as little as you value your own, sadly.
This is one of the best descriptions I have ever read. Thank you.
If you DO suffer from depression... Get help, the world is actually OK, but you must take initiative
(I did end up graduating Cornell... 8 years later)