The world is full of poorly designed experiences. By identifying and sharing them, maybe we can shrink their numbers. Here Grant Houston serves up an example of a site misinterpretting the actions of users.
@business's article-embedded videos automatically restart back to the beginning (with ads) when you scroll away. Annoying! #badUX #wtfUX
— Grant Houston (@ghoustonUX) April 28, 2015
It seems that on Bloomberg's home page you can scroll away from video content that's in progress an nothing happens, but when you watch content on the Bloomberg TV page, the site behaves differently.
If a video is playing and you scroll down the page to browse the other content—something I frequently do on other sites; listening to the audio while seeing what I want to watch next—the video stops playing. When you scroll back up and press play again, the video starts over, sometimes repeating the ad that precedes it. wtfux?
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