Idea: Tap to load Stories showing progress bar with one partition marker per post in the Story & option to pause loading (#40)
Purpose is to make clear when each post in a Story has loaded to give an indication when the loading may be completed.
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3 min readFeb 13, 2016
Snapchat today:
- Tapping to load a Story can take a range of time from very quick to a while because sometimes there may be only one photo to load and sometimes there may be a Story with perhaps 10 videos posted to a Story.
Proposed idea:
- Start on the Stories view. Tap on Person 1’s Story to start loading and note that there are markers below the Story indicating that there are 5 posts to be loaded in the Story. And the first post in the Story loads showing the progress bar moving across.
- Then the next 4 progress bars move across, followed by loading completing indicated by showing the ‘Loading” disappear and the Story is ready to be viewed.
- Then tap Person 2 and the 2 posts in the Story load.
- Then tap Person 3 and the 1 post in the Story loads.
- Tap Person 1 to load the first of five Stories.
Comments:
- Opportunity is to increase viewing of Stories by making clear when Stories have loaded.
- Alternative is to allow users to tap a loading bar again to pause loading such as in the case of a video taking a long time to load.
© 2016 D.J. Sherrets