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Volume control in player moved from left to right side of seekbar
The volume control in my player has always been to the left of the seekbar, but recently it moved over to the right side of the seekbar, beside the navigation buttons. I prefer it on the left, and can't for the life of me figure out how to move it back.
Any ideas? I'm using 360.
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Before you ask - I had no seek bar on my client versions. If I add a seek bar to the test project it appears on the left of the volume control and CC buttons - but that just moves the volume control to the middle - not the right.
Hi, John.
Thank you for sharing the .story file and the screenshots!
The behavior I experience is that the icons will move to the right once you turn on the Seekbar. However, since you mentioned that you didn't have a seekbar on the previous versions, I'd like to connect you with one of our support engineers to see what's happening with your Player settings.
I opened a case on your behalf, and you should hear from our team soon via e-mail.
Is there any work around to this? Having all Player controls (apart from play/pause) on the right is causing confusion when all previous courses have been built with them on the left.
+1 asking for a solution to move the player controls to the left hand side. Every single time the user needs to click Next / Prev or Submit they roll over the volume controls. This is not a good design decision for something that a user is traditionally only going to need to adjust once at max during a course.
That would be assuming you are not using custom navigation on each page.
1) This is the default player behavior that Articulate is establishing as a standard with their Modern player. Regardless of what custom work is done later, this should have sound UX practices tested out of the box within the parameters of basic expected use.
2) Custom navigation on each page wouldn't necessarily preclude the fact that the volume control could still be perceived as "in the way" any time the user reaches into the lower-right corner of the window, where (very) often even custom navigation and custom submit buttons live.
You will notice teh custom navigation bottom right/ The player controls are below them. Moving the audio control to either side would have no noticeable effect on a Learner
In your example here the user could easily roll over the volume icon, which pops up the slider control. Compounded over repeated interactions it ultimately becomes just kind of annoying. Bad UX. Youtube's player volume control is on the left if you need a global standard as an example. That's the point here, as dozens of people have already voiced here and on other threads. Moving the controls to the left (or offering an option to do so) would in fact be both merited, and helpful for everyone, regardless of whether they choose to use custom navigation or not.
How many times do you think a user is going to operate the audio control?
I agree as developers we should be able to adjust where User controls are but I doubt many people would think in the example I have provided that the button is in the way!
