I don't mind high level overviews of concepts if they manage to successfully lead the reader to the core of the idea. However, this slideshow was not effective at communicating anything to me. At some point during the second half of this "presentation" each slide seemed to have some vague phrase or sentence that was followed by 3-5 screenshots with no explanation of what the relationship was to the context the screenshot was given in -- I started to wonder if substituting those screenshots with random ones would have any impact on the value of the presentation.
If anything, I think the awful slideshow "player" UI on this website did a better job at explaining the lack of "invisible design" than the slideshow did. I spent almost a minute trying to find a play button, because from the look of the UI I was expecting a movie. When I hit the fast forward icon I thought it just took me to a preview screen for another unrelated video.
I understand how that may seem like an overreaction given that we're used to losing more time on more meaningless things, but a good UI should only take a split second to understand.
If anything, I think the awful slideshow "player" UI on this website did a better job at explaining the lack of "invisible design" than the slideshow did. I spent almost a minute trying to find a play button, because from the look of the UI I was expecting a movie. When I hit the fast forward icon I thought it just took me to a preview screen for another unrelated video.
I understand how that may seem like an overreaction given that we're used to losing more time on more meaningless things, but a good UI should only take a split second to understand.