Website Design idea

[Cameron S]

Overall I like the layout of the speech.zone website, however one thing has been bugging me in terms of the layout when working through the build your own voice exercise.

Having to go back two or three levels can be disconcerting, and I feel in order to keep a consistent flow while going through the steps linearly, at the bottom of the page a small tab that says ‘next page’ that takes you directly to the next stage would be great.
This complemented with the directory bar at the top, will make it clear where you are, without disrupting the flow of working through the steps.

[Simon]

You’re absolutely right about the current (2017-18) layout of the exercise to build your own unit selection voice. It’s a deep (and, even worse, variable-depth) hierarchical structure based too closely on how I personally like to arrange my thoughts, and not actually that helpful for students.

In previous years, the content of my courses was also arranged in this way, but the new versions have a structure with limited nesting. Student feedback suggests the new structure is much easier to navigate.

I plan to change all the exercises to have a similar simple structure, but didn’t want to do this in the middle of an academic year.

Thank-you for the constructive feedback. Next year’s students will thank you!

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