alt Hacker NewsThe opening is fine, but when you click "Start the lessons" you get a six-pane interface that imho is pretty overwhelming
Yeah, I can click around and follow what's going on. But I'm with GP: this is not making it easier to understand. It's great at being Hollywood UX: looks pretty, stuff moving everywhere. One click on "step" makes the image animate, and change the text in the left sidebar, top middle, and right sidebar, in addition to stepping the table in the bottom middle. But it's almost the opposite of distilling information
> you get a six-pane interface that imho is pretty overwhelming
Agreed, and it probably doesn't need to be overwhelming but the design choices leave the intent and purpose of the UI fairly unclear. It requires a bit of clicking around to understand what it's all for, and it's quite flat and unappealing, leaving little drive to do that work.