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Suggestions for another way to solve expanding this bundle of documents with a Slider
I thought I would try to use a slider object to take a bundle of 3 pages and expand them out with the aim to explain something about them.
However, I wanted the slider to be invisible, laid over t...
Thanks Judy. Yeah, that is true. It's why I added the bit about the arrow keys (I was wondering whether there was some way of programming them so that left is right and right is left with variables but may be getting a bit complicated, I'm not sure.
I certainly programmed what happened using keys in another interaction on here, previously.
This is partly an exercise to see how to simulate spreading out the pages but I wanted interaction by the user, with the ultimate plan being to have information at some of those stops of the slider.
Clicking a button to then have animations or even shorter animations to split into separate segments to get the information in between, felt less satisfying.
You could still use a slider to spread the pages. Just make it smaller, so it would fit underneath the pages and, thus, be available from all layers. You could even change the slider's thumb to an image of a hand. That wouldn't exactly mirror the action of placing one's hand over the pages to spread them, but it might be close enough to what you want.
Here's something I try to keep in mind. It's something I heard Dr. Michael Allen say years ago: "Alternate navigation is not interaction."
- In other words, true interaction happens when the learner has a choice to make, and different choices have different consequences.
- Nowadays, any click other than the standard navigation buttons is called an interaction. But that's not as engaging as a CCC (context, choice, consequence) interaction.
