Initial state of app

[davidbauer]

I think we should add a slide before the current first one that gives a brief general intro to the topic and asks the user to launch the intro. When the user clicks on launch, the now first slide appears and the animation starts. What do you think, @ilyabo?

[ilyabo]

I had the same thought...

Although, as an alternative, we could add small Play/Stop buttons to each of the slides. Because the animation can become quite annoying and disturbing while the user tries to read the text. So the animation would not start automatically, or it would be at least possible to stop it. What do you think?

[davidbauer]

The key question here is: Do we expect the users to read first or watch the animation first? I guess whenever there's something moving, attention goes there. So maybe your suggestion is the better one. You read the text, then play the animation.

[davidbauer]

This would also allow us to reduce the visualisation's opacity until the play-animation-button is hit for the first time. This directs the user's focus more towards the intro (otherwise, he might start clicking in the visualisation, which wouldn't work with the intro still active).