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Visiting Manchester, England - Elearning Challenge #379 Virtual Tours and Field Trips
Looks good overall, but I find it all a little muddled.
Here are where I would look at doing some improvements:
The home icon has no trigger on it but the oval below does. Remove all of the player nav, not sure you need the side bar as it makes the home button useless.
Not 100% sure, but I think the home button icon is stretched and not equal dimensions.
As you are using icons for the nav they don't have a hit state across negative space, I would pop them inside a shape and add the trigger to the state.
Overall Nav is confusing, you have the player buttons (get rid of these) a home button on some slides, if you want to use this it should be on every slide. Then you have a back to home button, and a next exhibit button. The some slides (mostly 360 slides) have no nav at all.
The design is also a bit odd there are ovals and square shapes and then in the 360 there are rounded buttons, and also icons. We then had solid colours and transparency. Some consistency here would really help the design overall. Objects are also not entered or distributed correctly.
Typography and fonts are again confused, there is a mix of all caps, initial caps and no caps. Orphaned words and font layout is painful to the eye in places.
For colours, I would be consistent on transparency and then choose one colour for interactive object so users know what can be clicked.
For instructions try and avoid the word click, I don't think scroll is the correct term for 360 images.
It could all do with some micro interactions and animations to enliven it a bit. Some hover states would also help.